Memoirs of the life and writings of the late Rev. Thomas Baker, B. D., of St. John's college in Cambridge, from the papers of Dr. Zachary Grey, with a catalogue of his ms. collections

THE LIBRARY

OF

THE UNIVERSITY

OF CALIFORNIA

LOS ANGELES

M E M O I R S

O F T H E

LIFE and WRITINGS

OF THE LATE

Rev. THOMAS BAKER, B. D.

of st. John's college in Cambridge,

FROM THE PAPERS OF

Dr. Z A C H A R Y GREY,

WITH A

CATALOGUE of his MS. COLLECTIONS.

B Y
ROBERT MASTERS, B.D. and F.A.S.

CAMBRIDGE,

Printed by J. Archdeacon Printer to the UNIVERSITY;

Sold by J. & J. Merrill, and J. Deighton, Cambridge*

B. White, London ; J. & J. Fletcher, Oxford ;

and M. Booth, Norwich.

MDCCLXXXIV.

T O T H E

HONOURABLE and RIGHT REVEREND

J A, M E S

LORD BISHOP of ELY,

NOT SQ MUCH DISTINGUISHED

BY THE

HONOURS CONFERRED UPON HIMSELF
AND HIS ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY,

AS BY HIS

SINGULAR ATTACHMENT TO THE

BUSINESS OF HIS DIOCESE,

AND UNUSUAL RESIDENCE THEREIN;

WHICH, WITH HIS

AFFABLE AND CONDESCENDING BEHAVIOUR TO ALL,

HAVE JUSTLY ENDEARED HIM

TO THE PUBLICK,

TO HIS CLERGY,

AND IN PARTICULAR To HIM,

WHO WITH ALL HUMILITY BEGS LEAVE

TO INSCRIBE THE FOLLOWING MEMOIRS,

AND TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIMSELF

HIS LORDSHIP'S

MOST OBEDIENT AND OBLIGED SERVANT,

ROBERT MASTERS,

G974 J v-

PREFACE.

THE Collector of the following Papers Dr. Za-
chary Greya, (well known to the learned World
by his numerous Writings) and who was intimately ac-
quainted with the Subject of them, was apt to wonder
that none of his Friends of St. John's College, who had
both Leifure and Abilities, (when probably upon a
timely Application to his Executor, many proper Ma-
terials for that Purpofe might have been obtained)
fhould never have attempted the Life and Character of
that worthy Man ; who lived much beloved, and died as
much lamented, by all who had the Pleafure of his Ac-
quaintance.

An Attempt that he owned required a much better
Pen than he was Mailer of, but as it had hitherto been
neglected by others, he would endeavour to fupply by
faithfulnels in the Narration, what might in other re-
ipects be found defective-, avoiding at the fame time
every Degree of Adulation and Flattery.

And for this Purpofe he fpared no Pains in collecting
Materials, applying to all fuch as he thought able to
turnifh him with any. With this View he employed
Friends to fpeak to Dr. Bedford of Durham, who was

fo

a He died at Ampthill, on 25 Nov. 1766, in the 79th Year of his
Age, and was buried at his Parifh of Houghton Conqueft.

a 3

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fo obliging as to give him all the AfMance he was able-,
as appears from a Letter of 27th July, 1755, (which
will hereafter be quoted more at large, as giving a par-
ticular Account of his Death.) His Advice here however,
in Relation to the Doctor's Undertaking, is to the fol-
lowing Purport. t; I fhould apprehend (but I offer it
with fubiT.ifiion) that as Mr. Baker was never in any
publick Station of Life, it would 'be difficult to get
Materials fufficient to furnifh out a Volume. Frequent
Inftances of his great Skill and critical Knowledge, in
all Parts of Literature, made a very large Part ; and
thefe now I doubt may be very much difperfed. However,
I think, there might be pickt up, fome Things in this
Manner. His Cultom was in every Book he had read,
to make Obfefvations, {cz down an Account of the Au-
thor, &c. Now a great number of his Books are in our
College Library. Thofe which Mr. Burton had, were
fold here : I myfelf have his Copy of the Llereditary
Right, which he has greatly enriched. Now would it
be impofilble think you, to pick fome very material
Things from all thefe, that might be publifhed under
this Title, or any other you like better ? viz. Remarks
and Obfervations on different Authors, and on various
Points of Learning, by the late Rev. Mr. Baker, toge-
ther with fome Account of his Life, &c. as Dr. Grey was
likewife of Opinion that if a Collection of this Kind,
was judiciouily extracted, it would be of great Uie to
the Publick, and as a Specimen, has favoured us with
one out of the Books in hrs own Cuitody, of much Ids
Importance, however, than thofe upon the Books given
to the Univerfity Library. And in farther Purluit of
this Defign, he applied loon after to that learned Anti-
quary, and very worthy Member of the honourable
Houle of Commons, James Weft, Eiq. who favoured
him with the following Anlv.er.

Rev.

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Rev. Sir,

On my return to Town, I was favoured
with your Letter, and lhall be glad to be of any Service
to you in any learned Work you are engaged in.

The Life of my very worthy Friend Mr. Baker, who
was fo perfectly friendly and communicative, that it
may afford Matter to interweave in it, the Literary Hi-
itory of our Country, during that Period. His con-
ftant Correfpondence with ABp. Wake, the Bifhops
Gibibn, Kennet, Burnet, Mr. Hearne and others,
are full of learned Notices. The Collections left to
Lord Oxford, now the Property of the Britifh Mufeum,
will be very neceflary to be perufed, but at prefent they
are removing; under Seals from Ld. Oxford's late Houie
in Dover Street, to Montague Houfe, and are to re-
main in that Condition, till the Houfe is repaired, and
Keepers of the Books and Curiofities appointed.

I mall be glad to be the firft, to acquaint you when
they will be opened, and then I take it for granted you
will have right to confult them.

I am, Rev. Sir,
Lincoln's inn Fields, Your moft obedient humble Servant,

May ,7i 1755. j Weft<

In a Letter from Dr. Willis, (dated from Whaddon
Hall, May 19, 1759,) who had been applied to on the
fame Subject, he informs him that he had " indeed
a great many of Mr. Baker's Letters, but that they
were interfperfed and bound up for the molt Part in a
great many Collections. "And as he generally omitted
the Dates, they laid in no order, fo that he could not
turn to them in any Method ; as they are, however, if
you will pleafe to come and perufe them here, I will

gladly fend my Chariot for you, &c.*' As he died

however, foon after, thefe with the reft of his MSS.
were I imagine lent to the Univerfity of Oxford, to
which he bequeathed them.

a 4 He

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He acknowledges his Obligations likewife to Dr.
Phillip Williams, for fome Copies of Mr. Baker's Let-
ters from the Originals in the Hands of Mr. Burton,
his Nephew. To the Rev. Wm. Cole, then Rector of
Blechley, in Buckinghamfhire, for fome Tranfcripts
from the Works of Mr. Thomas Hearne and others, in
Acknowledgement of Mr. Baker's Affiftance. And to
the Editor for fome original Letters to Dr. Watfon,
Bifhop of St. David's. And laftly, to the Rev. Mr.
Skinner, lately Fellow of St. John's College, and Pub-
lick Orator, for other original Letters of Mr. Baker, to
the late honeft and induftrious Hiftorian, Mr. John
Strype.

The Materials thus collected, blended with others in
Relation to many other eminent Nonjurors, were oblig-
ingly put into the Hands of the Editor, by Dr. Grey's
Widow, fome Years fince, with Power to difpofe of
them as he thought proper •, indeed they would earlier
have been reduced into fome form, and communicated to
the Publick, had not an Obftacle to his firft Defign,
which it is not now perhaps neceffary to relate, occafion-
ed this Delay. Such as they are however (with the Ad-
ditions he has fince been able to make) the bed perhaps
that can now be procured, of a Perfon, who led fo re-
tired a Life; they are fubmitted to the Reader, whole
Benevolence is intreated to make Allowance for involun-
tary Errors (and he may be afiured there are no others)
as well as to point out any iuch in a friendly Manner,
for their future Correction.

The Reader may perhaps be at a lofs to account for
the Particulars given of Mr. Baker, by Mr. Nichols, in
his Anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer, corresponding fo exactly
with the following in Phrale, Order, See. as far as
they extend ; lie mult then be apprized, that fome
Time fince, foon after they were reduced into the p re-
lent Order, the Editor put them into the Hands of Ri-
chard Gouszh, Efq. to confuk with him in a friendly

Way

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Way about the Mode of Publication, who retaining
them for fome Time, made iuch Extracts from them as
he thought proper ; this he acknowledged in a Letter
upon their Return, and from thefe, both taken and
communicated without leave, it is fcarce to be doubted,
the Article Baker, in the new Edition of the Biographia
Britannica, was chiefly compiled, as well as that in the
Anecdotes of Bowyer.

Mr. Nichols might indeed as he afierts, buy Papers of
Dr. Grey's of a Bookfeller at Northampton, and perhaps

fome original Letters concerning Mr. B- • but nothing

reduced into any kind of Form, and that too in the very
identical Phrafe, as both the foul and fair Copy are ftill
in Hand, and vary in many refpects from that he
printed. But to fet this Matter in a ftill clearer Light,
Mr. N ■ himfelf in a late Conference, candidly ac-
knowledged he had many Particulars in this and other
Articles, from Mr. Gough, fo that he alone feems to be
accountable, for the breach of Confidence repofed in
him by Mr. M

Mr. M however, fince the Publication of Mr.

G s 2d Edition of his Britifh Topography (fluffed

with a vaft Farrago of Things, many of them not only
trifling, of little Importance, and bearing no Relation
to the Subject, but what is worfe, of a very fcurrilous
and offenfive Nature) cannot help being furprized at
the Treatment he has met with from one, who in that
Work, has fo feverely cenfured others for purloining,
viz. Bp. Moore, Sir Tho. Bodley, Mr. Umfreville, Drs.
Rawlinfon, Willis, &c, which Reflections, if founded
upon Facts, as that on Sir Tho. Bodley, feems far from
bcingb, are at lead very uncharitable, if not malevolent,
and luch as it could aniwer no good Purpofc to record, of

fuch

b See Sir Hen. Saville's Letter at length, with a Confutation of

(his Scandal, in Gent. Mag. 1772, p. 371, yet Mr. G has nor-

withltanding, fuffered it to be continued in the new Edition.

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fnch refpedtable Perfons. Whilft however he has been
thus ievere upon thefe, and many others of unblemifhed
Characters, he has forgot to pais any Cenfure upon his
learned Friend (although intimately known to him) who
carried off the Royal Finger, and has been filent in re-
fpect to many of his greater! Heroes, well known to
have been guilty of the like Practices ; but fuch is the
Power of Prejudice and PafTion in warping Mens
Judgments.

Before I quit this Head of Purloining, it will be
likewife proper to take Notice of the Perfon hinted
at in the Biographia Britiannica, as having another Life
of Mr. Baker c; now this was the late Mr. Cole of Mil-
ton, who in Imitation of his Friend G h, having

had the Perufal of Dr. Grey's Collection, on this Sub-
ject, tranfcribed great Part of them into his MSS. where
they will be found with many of Browne Willis (after
they were bequeathed to the Univerfity of Oxford) and
of feveral others, obtained in the fame clandeftine Way,
if according to his whimfical Will, they fhculd ever
be laid before the Publick. But this, if we may judge
from his Notes upon Publications, prelented to him by
his beft Friends, they are utterly unfit for, fince Cha-
racters formed from fuch itrong Paffions and Prejudices,
as he was perpetually actuated by, can never be drawn
with any Degree of exactnefs. And the Misfortune is,
that thefe, with all the little Tales of Scandal, of the
Univerfity, Town and County, for half a Century pad,
are lb blended with his other Collections (however valu-
able in themfelves,) they can fcarce be feparated : fo that
probably from this Circumftance alone, the Labours of
his whole Life, will be fuffered to fink into Oblivion,
and nothing left to fupport his Memory, but that
foolilh Monument of his Vanity, ordered by Will to

be

c This I am told was to have been piinted at Strawberry Hill,
had not fome difference arofe concerning the Character of Bp. Bur-
Let, and was afterwards defigned for Mr. Nichols's Prefs.

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be erected over his Remains. And the Attempt to keep
thefe Characters from the Publick, till the Subjects of
them fhall be no mored, feems to be peculiarly cruel
and ungenerous, fince it is precluding them from vindi-
cating themfelves from fuch injurious Afperfions, as
their Friends perhaps (however willing) may at that
diftance of Time, be incapable of removing. The
above Cenfure, may perhaps be thought fomewhat fe-
vere, but the Editor, well acquainted with the fickle-
nefs of his Difpofition, for more than forty Years paft,
avers it to be well grounded, and thinks it incumbent
upon him thus to publifh it to the World, to prevent
any Mifchiefs that may arife hereafter from his unwar-
rantable Prejudices.

Perhaps his Zeal for the Memory of Mr. Baker,
might tempt him to make thefe Depredations upon
Dr. Grey, but he has (hewn a much more reputable
and laudable Attention to it, by the following Claufe in
his Will6.

" I give, as a Mark of my Veneration to fo amiable
a Character, ten Pounds to buy a black Marble Slab,
to cover the Grave of the late Mr. Tho. Baker, B.D.
in Sr. John's College Ante-chapel, clofe to the Mo-
nument of Mr. Hugh Afhton, where I faw him in-
terred, if the Society will allow of it; and his Arms
[Argent on a Saltire engrailed, five Efcallops Argent,
on a chief Sable a Lion paffant Argent] engraved ac
at the Top, and the Inlcription to be compofed by
the worthy Mailer, or any other he fhall appoint, and
no Mention made of me in it.

By this the Neglect hinted at in p. 93, is properly
provided for, and there is no doubt l-'uch a Stone, with
a proper Inlcription, will loon be laid over his Remains.

In Addition to p. 119. — One Thing more particu-
larly

* For the Space of twenty Years.
c Dat. 12 Dec. 1782.

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larly was defired, that nothing might be printed, that
might give Offence to the Church or Religion, for in-
deed they are wrote with too much Freedom. One
Particular concerning Bp. Gardiner, I defired might be
iupprefTed, as rather too ludicrous for Hiftory, and too
plainly pointing out the Perfon who fent it, which yet
itands as I fent it.

Mr. Baker had made great Additions to Mr. Willis's
Hiftory of Abbiesf, which at his Death he bequeathed
to him in the following Words. " Thefe two Volumes
of Abbeys I leave to my learned Friend Browne Willis,
Efq."

Tho. Baker."

A ftrong Inftance of Mr. B — 's unbiafled Integrity,
is to be met with in the following Anfwer to his great
Friend Mr. Williams, Rector of Doddington in the Ifle
of Ely, who had applied to him for one of the Ex-
hibitions mentioned in p. 102, for his Son.

Worthy Sir,

I can allure you I am not alone in the
Difpofal of thefe Exhibitions, nor is it any Qualifi-
cation by the Settlement, to be the Son of a Clergy-
man. In the Difpofal of them, 1 have commonly had
regard to thofe that want them mod, and I thank God,
that is not your Son's Cafe. But I will do him that
Right to fay, he wants no other Qualifications5.

1 am forry to hear, your Lady is indifpofed, to whom
I wifh as much Health, as her Vertues deferve, &c.

Yours,
Camb. Jun. 6th. Tho. Baker.

The

r The Editor has the id Vol, ar.d fhould be "lad to know where
the ill is to be met with.

s Dr. Williams mentioned in p. 113.

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The following MS. Copies of Verfes, probably wrote
by Mr, B— were taken from his own Book, of the Fu-
neral Sermon of Lady Margaret, noted with his own
Hand in various Places, and now in the PofTefiion of
Dr. Beadon, the prefent worthy Mafter of Jefus College,
who has been fo obliging as to favour me with the Pe-
rufal of it.

To my FOUNDER upon his PICTURE*1,

Accept this OfPring, from the unenvy'd Store,
Of him that wants the Pow'r, but withes more.
Had I improv'd the Hours that thou doft give,
Vain were faint Colours, thou in Verfe fhould'ft live.
Had thy large Bounty been deferv'dly mine,
Thy Name fhould flourifh bright in ev'ry Line.
Oh! how thy Seed lies wafte in barren Soil,
That wants true Vigor, tho' it wants notOyle.
Ah! how unequal are my belt Returns,
And yet my Heart with zeal and flaming burns.

For if my Heart is known, a gratefull Minde
I bear, with ftrong Defires and unconfin'd.
To the I dare appeal, if thou doft know,
Or now concern thyfelf with Things below.
Oft had I lent my fervent Vows to Heav'n,
Were this the Time, or ought were now forgiv'n.
Oft had I pray'd for the, as thou defires,
Could I believe the hurt by purging Fires.
Thy pad Defires they were, nor are they fo,
'Twas thy miftaken wifh, whilft here below.
Thy Joys compleated, ulelefs Pray'rs may ceafe,
And end in Praife to him that gives the Peace.

And yet thy Bounty may I either fing,
Or may the Fountain ftop, whence it fhould fpring.

upon

h Mr. B— had a good Pidture of Dr. Hugh Afheton, his Foun-
der, which is probably now in the College.

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upon the BISHOP of ROCHESTER'S

PICTURE, WHEN SENT TO THE COLLEGE

byLd. WEYMOUTH.

Welcome from Exile, happy Soule, to me,
And to thefe Walls, that owe their Rife to the.
Too long thou'rt baniflit hence, with Shame difgrac't,
Thy Arms thrown down, thy Monument defac't.
Thy Bounties great like the, involv'd in Night,
Till Tome bold Hand fhall bravely give them Light.
Too long opprefT't by Force and Power unjuft,
Thy Blood a Sacrifice to ferve a Luft.
In vain proud Herod bids thee be forgot,
Thy Name fhall brightly mine, vvhilft his mail rot.

UPON TWO DESERVING MASTERS,

Drs. SHORTON1 and METCALFE

And may thofe Worthies that did fhare his Fate,
Partake his Honors long, as they are late.
Hard was his Fate, unequal was his Lot,
That built our Walls, and finifht was forgot.
But mo.re unequal his, and lefs deferv'd,
That banifht was the Wails that he preferv'd.
That free from Guilt did fhare his Patron's Crimes,
And neither were their own, but were the Times.

O Father! O our Glory ! Ah our Shame !
That giv'fl us Plenty, whilft we wound thy Name,
And pay our Thanks in undeferved blame.

O may due Monuments be rais'd to the,
Juft to thy worth, not fuch as come from me.
May thy lucceeding Sons bear gratefull Senfe,
And expiate tor thofe, that drove the hence.
Ne'er may the Curie of that ungratefull Race,
Fall on thofe guiltlefs Heads, that hold their Place.

The

> The firft Mailer and Euilder of the College.
k The third Mailer, deprived in 1537.
e

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The following Letter from Lady Margaret, from an
Original in her own Hand, printed in L. Howard's
Collection of Letters in 1753, Vol. I. p. 155, is a pro-
per Supplement to thole of her Son Hen. VII, at the
end of Bp. Fiiher's Sermon.

My dereft and only defy red Joy yn thys World,

With my mode herty Blefiyngs, and humble
Commendations. — y pray oure Lord to reward and
thancke your Grace, for thatt yt pleafed your Hyghnes
foo kyndly and lovyngly to be content to wryte your
Letters of Thancks to the Frenfhe Kyng, for my great
mater, that foo longe hath been yn Suete, as Martyr
Welby hath (hewed meyour bounteousGoodnefs is plefed1.
I wifli my der Hert, and my Fortune be to recover
yt, y truit ye mail well perfeyve y mail delle towards
you as a kynd lovvng Modyr-, and if y fhuld nevyr
have yt, yet your kynd delyng ys to me a thoufand
tymes more than all that Good y can recover, and all
the Frenfhe Kyng's mygt be mine wyth all. My der
Hert, and yt may plefe your Hyghnes to lycenfe Martyr
Whytftcngs for thys time to prefent your rionorabyll
Lettyrs, and begyn the Procefs of my Caufe; for that
he lb well knoweth the Mater, and alio brought me the
Wrytyngs from the feyd Frenfhe Kyng, with hys odyr
Lettyrs to hys Parlyement at Paryfe •, yt (hold be grctlye
to my helpe, as y thynke, but all wyll y remyte to
your pleiyr •, and yf y be too bold in this, or eny my
Deiires, y humbly beieche your Grace of pardon, and
that your Highnes take no difplefyr.

My good Kynge, y have now fent a Servant of myn
ynto Kendall, to reffeyve fyche Anueietys as be yet
hangynge opon the Accounte of Sir Wyllam Wall, my
Lord's Chapcleyn, whom y have clerly dyfcharged ;

and

1 Concerning the Payment of a certain Sum of Money fhe lent to
the Duke of Orleans, when Prifoner in England. See Att. Reg.
V. HI, p. 129.

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and if yt will plefe your Majefty's onne Herte, at your
leyfer to fende me a Lettyr, and command me, that y
fuffyr none of my Tenants be retayned with no man,
but that they be kepte for my Lord of Yorke, your faire
fwete Son, for whom they be mod mete; it fhall be a
a good excufe for me to my Lord and Hofbond •, and
then y may well and wythoute dyfplefyr caufe them all
to be fworne, the wyche (hall not aftyr be long un-
don. And wher your Grace fliewed your pleiyr form —
the Baftard of Kyng Edward, Syr, there is neither
that, or any other thyng I may do to your Command-
ment, but y fhall be glad to fullfill my lyttyll pow-
er, with God's Grace. And my fwete Kyng, Feldyng
this berer hath prayed me to befeche you to be his good
Lord yn a matter he feweth for to the Bifhop of Ely,
now as we here electe", for a lyttyll OfFiyfe nyghe to
Lond. Verily my Kynge, he ys a geud and wyfe well
rewled Gentylman, and full truely hathe ferved you
well accompanyed, as well at your fyrft, as all odyr
occafions •, and that cawfeth us to be more bold and
gladder alfo to fpeke for hyme-, how be yt my Lord
Marquis hath ben very low to hym yn Tymes paft, by
caufe he wuld not be reteyned with him •, and trewly my
good Kynge, he heipythe me ryght well yn feche Mat-
ters as y have befynes wythyn thys partyes. And my
der hert, y now befeche you pardon of my long& tedy-
ous Wryting, and pray almighty God gyve you as long,
good and profperous Lyfe as ever had Prynce, and as
herty BlefTyngs as y can axe of God.

At Calais Town, thys day of Saint Anne, that y did
bryng yn to thys World my good and gracyous Prynce,
Kynge and only beloved Son. By

Your humble Servant, Bede- woman & Modyer,
To the Kyngs Grace. Margaret R

" Arthur, by Lady Elizabeth Lucy.

" Probably Richard Redman, Bp. in 1501, which points out the
Date of the Letter.

MEMOIRS

*ww»x> waatm 11 n i.t.. .

MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE and WRITINGS

O F T H E

Rev. THOMAS BAKER, B. D.

1

HOMAS BAKER, the Subjeft of thefe
Memoirs, was defcended of a good Family,
well efteemed and diftinguifhed for its Affeclion
and Loyalty to the Crown. His Grandfather Sir
George Baker, Knt. greatly injured his Family,
by borrowing large Sums of Money upon his own
Credit, in the Time of the Rebellion, which he
either lent to the King, or laid out for his Service.
Being Recorder of Newcaftle, he with great Bra-
very defended that Place againft the Scots in the
Year 1639; a full Account of which is given by

A the

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the Author referred to below*. And this wor-
thy Gentleman was again engaged in its Defence,
with Sir John Morley, the Mayor of that Corpo-
ration, and Sir Nicholas Cole, Bart, at the Time
it was befieged by the fame People, upon their
Return into England, under the Command of
General Lefly in 1643", wnen tne Marquis of
Newcaftle was there in Perfon to defend it. It
was then, I think, fays Mr. Baker, my Grandfa-
ther was knighted by CommifTion from the King;
an Honour he was bound to maintain, though
almofr to the Ruin of himfelf and Family c.

His Father was George Baker, Efq; of Crook,
in the Parifb of Lanchefter, (a Place remarkable
for its Antiquities'1) in the Biihoprick of Dur-
ham, who married Margaret a Daughter of Tho-
mas FoiTter, of Edderfton in the County of Nor-
thumberland0; of whom Thomas was born at
Crock on 14 September, 1656.

When

1 Lloyd's Memoirs, p. 6S4.

'0 Rufliworth's Hift. Colled. Part ill. p. 646, 7. Heath's Chro-
nicle, p. 68.

c Mii Colled. Vol. XXXV. p. 54. — The Gates were fhut againft

him w his way from Northumberland to St. Albans, and he uas

/-blight! to retreat, but at length a Pais was obtained for him, his

Strva-.ts. Anns and Neceifciries from General Fairfax, dated at

GyieiUry, Zj July, 164;.

- Gibfon's Camden's Brie. Vol. II. Col. 950. Philof. Tranfad.
No. 266. & 354. Englifh Topog. p. 46.

•' Probably defcended from Sir John Foriler, Knt. who had con-
i: '-rab e PolTeSions in that County, and was long Warden of the
Middle March, where he had been very ferviceable. Mem. of Cary
]•'., of Monmouth, p. icC

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When arrived at a proper Age, he was font to
the Free-School at Durham, to be educated un-
der the Care of Mr. Batterfby (as I have been in-
formed) who was many Years Mailer of that
School ; from whence, after laying a proper
Foundation in Clallical Learning, he removed,
with his elder Brother George, to the Univerfity
of Cambridge, where they were both admitted of
St. John's College, the one Penfioner, the other
Fellow Commoner, at the fame Time, under the
Tuition of Mr. Sanderfon f, June 13, 1674, and
were matriculated 0:1 the 9th of July, in that
fame Year, Thomas beimj; then nearly j S Years
of Age.

Ke took his nrfr. Degree in Arts in 1677, was
chofen Fellow of the liouie upon Dr. Afhton's
Foundation (on winch he had been Scholar like-
wilt-) in 1679, and proceeded Matter of Arts in
3 6S 1 . lie was ordained Deacon by Bp. Comp-
ton of London, on 20 Dec. 1685, and Pried, by
Bo. Barlow or Lincoln, very foon after at Busrden.
He was appointed one of the Univerfity Preach-
c:.o iii i 6 ■';;, bt-ing then B. D.

Xwt :; i mg '.I ime after this, an Offer was made
him by L..\ lion as Waiiou :, a coniiderable Tu-
tor

! Miiiricui?j laftitutio A. D. 1544. See MSS. Baker, Vol. IX.
l\o. 1 ^.

t Sec an \cc unt c;f him in Salmon's Lives of the Fiv-Iifh Bifhops

from '..,. ilci'.'jr^u n it the JRevonsrion, p. 2^4. Hjs Brother W,J-

' A : liam,

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tor in his own College, (afterwards a more con-
fiderable Benefactor) and lately nominated to the
Bifhoprick of St. David h, of going with him as his
Chaplain, in the following moft friendly Terms ;
as appears by a Letter without Date.

tc I intimated my Defire, that you'd be pleafed
" to accept the Offer I made, of your being my
rt Companion and Confident, rather than Chap-
" lain, in my unexpected Remove. I hear there
" are very good Things belonging to the Bifhop,
" and the Country is very much commended.
" The only Fault I find, is its Diftance from the
c: North ; but you and I fhall not lofe our Incli-
:* nation to our own Countries. The Notice I
fC have taken of you in St. John's, hath deter-
c' mined me to you in this Particular fo much,
C£ that your Condefcenfion will be a particular
;c Engagement to, Sir,

" Your humble Servant,

" Thomas Watfon."

This however he was pleafed to decline, proba-
bly upon a Profpecl: of being taken into the Bi-
fhop

Ham, a Native of Hull, likewife was buried in the Chancel of Cherry
Hinton, Cambridgefhire, which he had adorned, at the Age of 84,
in 1721, having farther endowed the Hofpital founded by his Bro*
ther Thomas at the Place of his Nativity.

•: lord Dover being his Patron with the King. See B. Willis**
Sur-.ev of 6r. David's, p. 138.

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iliop of Durham's Family in that Capacity, as he
actually was foon after. Lord Crew, then Biiliop
there ', collated him to the Rectory of Long New-
ton in that County and Diocefe, in June 1687.
And it was fuppofed, by many of his Lordihip's
Family, he intended to have added to it the
Rectory of Sedgefield, (valued at fix Hundred
Pounds per Ann. at the lead) with the Prebend,
called the Golden Prebend, the beft in the Church
of Durham. But how this might have been,
muft remain uncertain, fmce he had the Misfor-
tune to incur the Bifhop's Difpleafure, which
obliged him to leave the Family, and to cut off
all his Profpecl of farther Advancement there.
The Occalion of it is thus reprefented in his
own Words'4. " When King James's Declara-
" tion1 (for Liberty of Confcience) was appoint-
" ed to be read, the molt condefcending Thing
" the Bifhop ever did me, was his coming to my
" Chamber (remote from his own) to prevail
" with me to read it in his Chapel at Aukland;
" which i could not do, having wrote to my
" Curate not to read it at my Living of Long

" New-

1 He was the Son of John Lord Crew, Baron of Stene, born in
1633, confecrated Bifhop of Oxford in 167 1, and tranflated toDur-
ham in 1674.

k Tranfcribed from the Original by Dr. Philip Williams, late
Prefident of St. John's College.

J This may be feen at large in Bp. Kennet's Hill, of England^
Vol. III. p. 463, &c,

A3

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" Newton: he prevailed (however) with the Cu?
fC rate of Aukland to read it in his own Church,
<f when the Bifhop was prefent to countenance
cc the Performance. When all was over, the
cc Bifhop (as a Penance, I prefume) ordered me
cc to go to the Deanm, (as Archdeacon) to require
c< him to make a Return to Court of all fuch as
li had not read it, which I did, though I was one
" of the Number."

This Bifliop, who thus difgraced him for his
Refufal, acred very differently in this Refpecl
from the generality of his Brethren, and at the
Revolution very inconfiftently with his former
Behaviour n. For, after cauflng this Declaration
to be' read, which eighteen of his Order, and the
Chief of the Clergy refilled0, he joined in the
Vote that King James had abdicated, yet after
hHng excepted out of the Act of Pardon of King
William and Queen .Mary, for his Conduct upon
their coming to the Crown, he condefcended to
take the Oaths to them, and kept his Bifhoprick

to

- Dennis Greenvill, D. D. collated to the .Archdeaconry, Sept.
v 2, and inllallcd Dean, Dec. 14, 1684, but deprived of both on
J, '■. 1. ; '■■jo. lie was brother to the Earl of Bath.

>a!m m'j Live; of the Bifacps, p. 396. and Willis's Survey
,th. Vol. 1. p. 251.

' ,'ot 1; ovc 200 of the whole Body of the Clergy read this Decla-
rp.-i v., f'Mne of whom afterwaris recanted, and i'even of the Biihops
•- t 1 1 t'eii'.i .: the K.111;; againit it, the Confequence of which

. . ■■■.•.•.•p.. tv '". iiiih of ihe Puritan:, Vol. IV. p. 5 Sg. Ea-

ch r-V tii:t. vi ; '.ig'and, Vol. 111. p. 859. Appendix to Baker's
Cluvn. p. 7^4; j.

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to the Day of his Death, on 18 Sept. 1722, at the
Age of eighty-eight.

Amongft thofe who quitted their Preferments
in the Diocefe of Durham, for refufing the Oaths
enjoined at the Revolution, Mr. Baker was one.
To ufe his own Words, " I was," fays he, cc in
the Bifhop of Durham's Family in 1688 (a very
critical trying Year) and the next out of all.
My Patron the Bifhop held his Ground j I, who
was a Malignant in 1688, was turned out the
Year following;" when he gave up his Living of
Long Newton on 1 Aug. 1690, with great chear-
fulnefs, as it appears from a Letter, communicated
by a Friend of Mr. Baker, in the following Terms.

Sir,

I muft defire you once more to return my
humble Thanks to my Lord, as for all his Fa-
vours, ib particularly, that my Living has been
referved to me fo long ; and that my Lord may
not fuller by it, I have nothing further to defire,
only this, that my Lord would now difpofe of it.

I am very fenfible of his Lordfhip's Favour, and
with howmuchGoodncfsIhave been treated in this
whole Affair; and therefore I do now part with it
with as much Thankfulnefs as I did receive it.

I am not delirous to know my SuccefTor; who-
ever my Lord thinks fit to fucceed me, fhall be
acceptable to me, and I fliall not only be in Cha-

A 4 rity

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rity with him, but fhall have a Friendfhip for
him ; and if any thing farther be required of me,
to make the Living more eafy to him, I fhall be
ready to do it, upon the leaff. intimation of his
Lordfhip's Pleafure.

I do not know whether I have faid enough, if
I have not, I mufr. defire you to fay it for me.

I am to thank you for your Letter, and for all
your Expreffions of Kindnefs and Favour, though
they were unnecefTary to me: for though you faid
nothing, yet I could never fo much as doubt of
it, as being fo much already,
Sir,

Your mofl obliged humble Servant,

Tho. Baker.
Humble Duty to my Lord.

He thereupon retired back to his Fellowfhip of
St. John's College, in the peaceable Enjoyment
of which he was protected by fome great Perfon,
as I think it evidently appears, by the following
Paragraph in his Preface, to the Funeral Sermon
of Margaret Counters of Richmond and Derby,
£cc.D After having expatiated upon the Orthodoxy
of the Members of that Houfe from theReftoration
to that Time, he goes on: ' In one Word, when
' the Nation was again alarmed with the Fears of
* Popery, no College expreft a greater Abhorrence

'of

p P. 57-

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* of that Religion, or more Readinefs to fuffer,
1 had there been Occafion. Of that Number I
' was one; and had I not been under a noble
' Patron, whole Humanity and Goodnefs were
4 equal to his Birth, I mult have been an imme-

* diate Sufferer; and this Declaration I make,
' that if it be not true, it may be contradicted ;
1 eipecially by fuch, as having then been tame
1 and filent enough, when the Danger threaten-
' ed, are fince very loud, and wonderfully brave,
' when they have nothing to fear.'

Not long after his return to College, I find by
fome Letters communicated to me by a worthy
Friend, that he retained a grateful Senfe of the
friendly Offer made him by Bifliop Watfon in the
Year 1687, and correfponded with him fome time
before his Deprivation, which happened in 1699,
a fewr Months after the Sentence had been confirm-
ed by the Delegates, to whom he had appealed q.
Many of thefe Letters relate to the Bifhop's pri-
vate Affairs at Burrough Green in Cambridge-
fhire, which Rectory he held in Commendam
with his Bifhoprick, and fo confequently are of no
concern to the Publick; but the few here infert-
ed, plainly fliew his Concern for his Friend when
under Tribulation, and though without date,

were

s Sec an Account of this Tranfattion in Burnet's Hift. of his own
Times, Vol. II. p. 226,7. 25°> '- vv'th Wood's Athen. Ox. Vol. II.
p. 1 170. Willis's Survey of it. David's, p. 138. and Godwyn de
Prelul. Angl. p. 588.

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were probably written but a fhort time before
that Event.

In one of the firft he gives an Account of the
Dutchefs of Somerfet's Foundation of Scholar-
ships in St. John's College; and in another about
the year 1698, lie concludes with wifhing li his
" Lordfhip all Happinefs, and a good Deliverance
tc from the Deligns of his Enemies; and hopes
" the Baffling of this Plot, will make People lefs
<c forward in believing all Sorts of Evidence.
" I am with duty, your Lordfhip's
l£ molt obliged Servant,
"T. B."

In another of the 7th of April, probably in
1699, he Addrefies him after this Manner.

" My Lord,

" A Perfon who lately came from
" Lambeth, and converfed pretty freely with the
iC Archbifhop, told me, that the Archbifhop has
fc been (low in his Proceedings again ft your Lord-
11 fhip, for which he is generally blamed, even
" by his own Friends; but alledgeth in Ids Ex-
" cufe, that he is refolved to leave your Lordfliip
f' no Ground of Complaint, hearing all that can
'£ poflibly be allcdged for you, yet the Sentence
<c will at laft be heavy. lie did not fpeak this as
(C the Archbifhop's Opinion, but he was very

<c pofitivc

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" pofitive in what he faid, and pretends good
" Authority for it. I think your Lordfhip can-
" not fafely take Meafures from the ABp. or
" Dr. Ox— r. Things are differently reported,
"lam

" Your Lordfhip's moft dutiful
" obliged Servant,

li T. B."

In another of Dec. 15.

" My Lord,

cc I wifli your Lordfhip many
Cl Years, and many Deliverances, but rather that
<c there may be no Qccafion."

Again in another of the 14 Jan.

" My Lord,

fC Dr. F is out of Town, but

tc one thing I remember he faid, that having men-

cc tioned to the D s as a thing reported,

" that they had two Bifhops now before them,

tc the

r Probably Dr. Oxendon, Mailer of Trinity Hall, and Regius
ProfefTor of Law; who was, I think, at that time Dean of the Arches,
and had been chofen one of their Reprefentacives in Parliament by
the Univerfity of Cambridge in 1695,

s Probably Charles Duke of Somerfet, who was chofen Chancellor
of the Univerfity on the Revolution in 1 638, which Office he held
with great Credit for the Space of lixty Years, to the Time of his
Death, Dec. 2, 1748.

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" the one of whom they would gladly fave', and
" could not, the other gladly deprive, and could

" not. The D replied in fome heat, it was

" very like he might be deprived. This the Dr.
" told me, but did not; care it mould be repeated,
<c and therefore I muft defire your Lordfhip not
" to fpeak of it, and indeed it is not fit to be
" fpoken of.
tc I am

" Your Lordfhip's humble Servant."

In one of 6 Jan. from Cambridge, probably in

1702.

" My Lord,

" I fhall be glad to hear that
<l your Lordfhip finds relief from your Petition";
cc I fee no hurt in that, it will fhew the World
" that your Lordfhip did not drop the Caufe, but
" defired a fair Hearing.

11 I have received the Books w, and have given

cc or

! Dr. Edward Jones, Bp. of St. Afaph, accufed likewife of Simony.
In whofe Cafe, Bp. Burnet tells us, the Preemptions were very
great, yet the Evidence was not fo clear as in the other. Hilt, of his
own Times, Vol. II. p. 227.

u To the Houfe of Lords I prefume, before whom the Caufe at
length came to a Hearing. ' A Letter to a Peer concerning the
Power of Metropolitans over their Comprovincial Bilhops,' in 4to.
1701, was wrote in Favour of the Bifhop.

w ' A fummary View of the Articles exhibited againfl the late
Bifhop of St. David's, and of the Proofs made thereon,' had been

pub-

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" or fent to Dr. C , Dr. Hill, Dr. B ,

" Mr. Roper, Billers, Browne, Th C. C. Sec.

" As many of them as I have feen, fend your
11 Lordfhip their Thanks. I doubt I fhall want
tc one or two for other Friends, whom I cannot
" eafily refill; if your Lordfhip could give one or
" two to Mr. Bofv — in London, it would make all

" eafy; however, I will take care that Dr.C

" fhall have one.

" lam your Lordfhip's

l< mod dutiful and obliged Servant."

Mr. Baker's Friendfhip however for this Gen-
tleman, feems to have got the better of his Judg-
ment, fince his Conduct has been very generally
condemned j and what perfuades me to think not
without reafon, is, that it appears highly probable
from original Papers, now in the Hands of — , that
long after his Deprivation, he even fold the Turns
of thofe Livings he had purchafed for and given
to St. John's College, " viz. Fulborn St. Vigor, va-
lue

publifhed in 8vo. 1701, by Sir John Coke, LL.D. in Anfwer to which
was printed in 4to. 1702, A large Review of the fame, in Defence
of the Bifhop, and which is probably the Book he employed Mr. Ba-
ker to diftribute amongft his Friends. It was drawn up by Mr. Fer-
gufon. See Salmon as above, p. 345, but this being thought too
long, was abridged by his Lordfhip's Chaplain, and printed in 1703,
4to. The Bifhop told Mr. Baker, ' The Bifhop of St. David vindi-
cated, &.c.' by way of free Conference between two bold Biitons,
4to. 170c, was wrote by his Chaplain and Countryman and Tovvnf-
man, Mr. Catline. See the Bifhop's Cafe a> agreed in the Houfe of
Lords. Baker's MSS. Vol. XIV. p. izi.

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lue 130^. — Brinkley, value 80^. both in Cam-*
bridgefhire, — and Brand's Burton, near Beverley
in Yorkfhire, value 200^. per Ann." and of
which he had referved„the nomination to himfelf
during his Life.

Upon his return to the College, he fat down
with great Application to his Studies, and what
Progrefs he made in them may be learnt from that
mod excellent Book, publifhed by him, {tiled,
' Reflections upon Learning, wherein is fhewn
the Infufficiency thereof, in its feveral Particu-
lars: in Order to evince the Ufefulnefs and Ne-
cefiity of Revelation :' a Book wherein he has
fhewn himfelf well acquainted with all Parts of
Learning, and which has met with fo general an
Approbation, that eight Imprefiions of it at the
lead, have been fold off. Mr. Bofwell in his
Method of Study, 1738, ranks it amongfr. the
Englifh Clafiicks for the Purity of its Style x, and
recommends it to the young Student's Perufal, as
an incomparable Performance, and well fitted for
an Introductory Treatife to the Sciences. "yA
" Piece," fays he, " of fo excellent a Nature, that
" will deferve a repeated Perufal, and that too
" with more than ordinary Exactnefs. That
<l mafterly Diction, that Purity and Simplicity of

" Ex-

* John Bofwell, A M. Vicar of Taunton, Part I. p. 246. See
Anecdotes of Bowyer, p. 203.

y P. 19, Introduction.

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Exprefllon, that runs through the whole, will
furnifh out a beautiful Pattern for Style; and
that Variety of Matter it contains, will afford
fome ufeful Hints even to the wife and learned.
'c Thofe fine Obfervations which the Author
has made on the feveral Branches of Know-
ledge, that came under his Notice, will give the
the Reader a general Notion of the moft valu-
able Parts of Learning, and prepare him for a
judicious Perufal of thofe Books that treat of
them. By the help of this ufeful Treatife, he
will be able to obferve the Defects of the feve-
ral Sciences he intends to frudy, and mark the
Faults to be avoided by Beginners. He will
here fee human Learning taken down from its
exalted Heights, its Difficulties pointed out,
and its Vanity and Infufficiency expofed, in a
beautiful Manner : and in an Age, wherein
Learning- is admired almoft to the Lofs of Re-
ligion; what can be a more proper Introduc-
tion to the young Gentleman's Study, what a
more fuitable Expedient to guard his Morals
from the Infection of a degenerate World, than
a Treatife of this Kind ?"
I will venture to add, nothing could better
have dii'covered the extenfive Knowledge of the
Author, than the Variety of Subjects on which
he treats ; and amongft which there are perhaps
as few Miftakcs as may be; one, however, he was

very

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very fenfible of many Years before his Death
(which his Bookfeller neglected to correct in the
fnbfequent Editions) and for which he quotes the
Authority of Baldwin, the Collector of the Frag-
ments of the twelve Tables of the Roman Laws,
one of which permits the Body of the Debtor to
be cut in Pieces, and divided amongft the Credit-
ors for Want of Payment*: by which was un-
doubtedly meant, no more than the Body of the
Debtor's Eftate, as has been fince fully proved by
a late very learned and ingenious Writer3, of the
fame College.

Though Ecclefiaflical Antiquities were by no
means his principal Study, yet he hath fhewn us
what Proficiency he was capable of making in
that Branch of Learning, by his Criticifm upon
two learned, though not very accurate Cri ticks,
M. Le Clerc and Father Simon j and in his Re-
marks, pointed out fome of their Miftakes, as
mav be leen at large in his xvith Chap, on Cri-
tical Learning, wherein he has flood up in De-
fence of Erafmus, the Perfon who, as Dr. Knight
obferves, awakened Men's Underitandings, and
brought them from the Friers1 Divinity to a relifh.
of general Learning, by his uncommon Wit and
extraordinary Degree of Literature b.

A late

1 Reflea. Chap. XIII. p. 178.

a Comment, ad Leg. Decern viral, de inope Debitore, &c. Joan,.
Taylor, LL.D. 4to. Lond. 1742.

h Life of Erafmns, Introduct. p. 7.

t '7 J

A late ingenious Writer, however, being of a
different Opinion, hath paffed the following Cen-
fure upon this Work. " Baker," fays he, " in his
,c Reflections upon Learning, defended Erafmus,
" and attacked Le Clerc with a Virulence which
" one would not have expected from a Man, who,
<c as I remember, was accounted a candid, gen-
" teel and polite Perfon. But party Zeal guided
" his Pen: Tantum Religio potuit. — Le Clerc
<f gave him a fhort Anfwer, in the Index to the
" fourth Edition of Ars Critica, under the Word
" Erafmus."

A Perfon of Dr. Jortin's Candour, fhould, me-
thinks, have compared Erafmus's Words with
thofe of Mr. Baker, before lie parTed fo difagree-
able a Cenfure upon the latter. More efpecially,
as Mr. Baker was known to have been a Man cf
the (tricleft Veracity, whilft that of Monf. Le Clerc
has been called in Queftion, more than once, al-
though he lays fo much ftrefs upon 'it, in his
fhort, but fcurrilous Anfwer. And if I could be
furprized at any Thing he either did or faid, it
would be that in the Edition of Erafmus's Works,
publiflied by him at Lyons in 1705; he has
printed Erafmus's Comment on the xxvinth
Chapter of the Acts of the Apoftles, verbatim,
with that of Bafil in 1535, without taking the
lead Notice of its being printed otherwife in the
Edition he mentions, and from which he takes

B the

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the Liberty of cenfuring Erafmns for his Want
of Geography.

Dr. Joi tin has likewife been pleafed to obferve,
that " Mr. Baker hath one Chapter upon Meta-
phyfics, in which he hath made no mention of
Locke. J uft as if a Man fhould wjite the
Lives of the Greek and Latin Poets, and truly
omit Homer and Virgil ! And further, that in
Chap. xvi. he had taken Notice, there was lit-
tle or nothing left for the Sagacity and Induftry
of modern Critics; whereby he fhewed he was
no Critic himfelf, and not at all acquainted
with the true State of Claffical Books, and par-
ticularly of Greek Authors." There are feve-
ral other like Shafts, occafionally lanced at Mr.
Baker, in his Life of Erafmus c, which is profef-
fedly formed upon the Plan of Le Clerc, the
Writer's Guide and Mailer. May not then his
own Words be retorted upon him ? But party
Zeal guided his Pen : Tantum fuadere Religio
potuit.

Mr. Baker likewife republished Bp. Fifher's
Funeral Sermon for Lady Margaret, Countefs of
Richmond and Derby, Mother to King Henry
VII. and Foundrefs of ChrifVs and St. John's Col-
leges in Cambridge'*; with a Preface of his own,

wherein

c See jor:in"s Life of Eiafmus, Vol. I. p. 550, I, &c. 4to. 1 7 5 S .

<; The Countefs at her Death, had thirty Kings and Queens allied
to her within the fourth Depree, either of Blood or Affinity: and

fince

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wherein he exprefles the higheft Regard for the
Memory of that great and good Man, as being
principally concerned, in promoting all her
Foundations and Benefactions to both Universi-
ties ; and towards the Conclufion of this Preface
(wherein is given an Account of Old John's Houfe,
containing fome farther Account of her Charities
and Foundations, together with a Catalogue of
her Profeflors both at Cambridge and Oxford,
and of her Preachers there, with the Foundation
of the prefent College) he fpeaks of him in the
following Manner. " Having now done with the
tc Foundation, it may be expected I fhould fay
" fomewhat of the following Sermon, as well as
" of its Author V " The Author is well known,
<c and will need no Apology for his private Vir-
" tues, and I can be no Advocate for his Opinions.
" It is very true, he died for a miflaken Princi-
" pie, which I could heartily wifh had been other-
" wife, as well for his own fake, as for the fake
" of the College, that fuffered with him: but if
c< he could not digeft the Oath of Supremacy, or
<c if he denied it, thus much may be faid in
IC Abatement of his Crime, that the Thing was
kC then quite new to him, till it had been better
<{ looked into, and the Doctrine propofed in fuch

fince her Death, (he hath been allied in her Pofterity to thirty more,
frcf. p. 7.

' P. 5?.

JB 2

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£c a Senfe, at lealr. in fuch Terms, as Q^Eliza-
cc beth's Clergy, I am lure Mr. Calvin, could
" hardly allow. And yet I cannot but hope bet-
tf ter of him, than of many of the complying Po-
c< pifh Clergy, who under that Reign of Perjury,
cc in all Appearance, proftituted their Confciences
tc to fave their Preferments : and yet fome of them
" did not do that, but were fent to wander, to
" feek their Bread, and were as very Mendicants
<{ by Neceflity, as they could have been under a
" Vow."

Erafmus, in a Letter to William Grocyn, fpeaks
of him as one of the learnedeft Men of the Age,
and gives the like Character of him to John Reuch-
lin, a Man famous at that Time for Cabaliftical
Learning f.

And Henry VII. in his Letter to his Mother
about promoting him to a Bifhoprick, fpeaks of
his lingular Virtue, his good and virtuous Con-
verfation, &c. in very high Terms5.

Dr. Rawlinfon, in his Englilh Topographer h,
fpeaks of this Preface in the following Terms.
<c In this Piece the modeft Author has given us a
" Specimen of his Skill in Antiquities; and it
" were to be wifhed he would let fee the Light,

" The

f Knight's Life of Erafmus, p. 124, 5.

s See Append, to Bp. Fiflier's Sermon, p. 41. To which may be
added Mr. Wharton's Character of him in his Anglia Sacra, Fart 1.
p. 382.

h By an impartial Hand, p. 14. 8vo. 1720.

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<f The Hiftory of St. John's College, &c. as this
<f fhort Sketch makes us eager to fee more of the
<c Author's Antiquities, and to read his Account cf
<c thofe, who flourifhed in the Republick of Let-
" ters, educated at Cambridge, in which we doubt
" not, Camden's Judgment will be joined with
" Wood's Induftry."

" As to the Sermon, could I fufpecl any Danger
<£ from making it Publick, though it be printed
" already, yet I mould not have been prevailed
" with to give it a fecond Edition: but I think
" there is none." For which he gives fome Rea-
fons, and then concludes, <c As it is, I trufl it
t{ with the Reader; if what has been faid by Way
<c of Apology, do not fatisfy, towards obtaining
■" his Favour, the next Thing I am to tell him is,
" that I do not value his Cenfure : I have no lit—
" tie Ends or Intereft to ferve; I have no Patron
" whom I either ftudy to pleafe, or am afraid to
<c offend; no Preferment that I either feek, or
" would accept, if offered without feeking; I fit
£C very loofe to the World, and have a very few
" Years to live; I have always had an Inclination
<c to fpeak the Truth, and to do Right, efpecially,
" where it is moft depreft and wanted; and in
tc that Opinion I hope to die."

As Mr. Baker had defervedly an high Opinion
of Bp. Fifher, and had fome Thoughts of writing
his Life, as appears by a Letter to Mr. Heme,

b 3 dated

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dated Sept. 1725. — " What you fay of undertake
11 ing Bp. Fifher's Life, I have often thought of,
<c but to tell you the Truth, I dare not venture,
" fmce Right cannot be done him, without giv-
" ing great Offence, and I would either do him
" Right, or nothing at all."

And as he was willing to preferve any Memo-
rials of fo worthy and learned a Prelate, fo we
find him very follicitous in procuring an original
Picture of him, or a good Copy; which the late
Lord Weymouth, as it appears from the following
Letters a, was fo obliging as to favour him with.

Long Leet, July 25,1709.
Dear Sir,

We are here of Opinion, that the
Volume of Llollingfhed, which you mention,

con-

5 Thefe Letters were put into Dr. Grey's Hands by Mr. Baker,
upon a Report having been propagated, that the Picture was not
given to Mr. Baker, but to the College ; about obtaining which he
feems to have been as anxious, as Sir Thomas More was for that of
Erafmus, when defpairing of feeing him any more in England. See
Knight's Life of Erafmus, p. 307. The above Letters were wrote
by Dr. Robert Jenkin, who had been Fellow of St. John's College,
of which he afterwards became Mailer, and was then Chaplain to
Thomas Lord Vifcount Weymouth, (who had been very kind to
Nonjurors (particularly to Bp. Ken) of which he was one, and
quitted his Preferments at the Revolution on that Account, except
his Fellowihip, to which he retired for the Profecution of his Studies.
He, however, conformed to the Act of K. George J. when Mafler,
and proceeded to eject thofe of the Fellows who refufed. Though
he acted herein with Reluctance againlt his Friends, and purely in
Obedience to the Injunctions of the Government, yet he was made
Uneafy by the Sufferers on that Account. A long Account of him
Blight be added from Nichols's Anecdotes of Bowyer, p. 15, 6.

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contains Things omitted in mod Copies, though
perhaps not all which are found in fome, but
that cannot be exactly known, till it be compared
with fome other Copy, which contains the Omif-
fions.

My Lord will take it very kindly, if you will
be pleafed, as you propofe, to fend that Volume
to Mr. Bedford, and his Lordfhip will fend Bp.
Fifher's Picture to London, to have a Copy taken
for you there, by a good hand.

Mr. Bouchier lately called here in his Way
from Bath, and in Difcourfe told me that he had
feen a Picture of Bo. Fifher in SufTex : when he
came into the Library, I alked him, whether he
knew that Picture, (hewing him Bp. Fifher's; he
faid he did not, and afterwards told us, that in
SufTex was not like it : which makes me think
that was taken when he was younger, or elfe is
not his.

Mr. Bouchier did not deny that this agrees with
the Latin Infcription, nor has any one that has
compared them.

My Lord, I doubt, has nothing in his MSS.
relating to the Univerfity^ but Mr. Harbynk,

(who

k Mr. George Harbyn, of Jcfus College in Cambridge, had been
Chaplain to Turner, Bp. of Ely, and fuffered with his Mailer for re-
fufing the Oaths at the Revolution. He is fuppofed to have been
the Author of a Book, intitled, Hereditary Right, Sec. although his
Friend Hilkiah Bedford fuffered Imprifonment, and was fined iooo

B 4. Mark;

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(who fends his Service) has clivers Papers, though
none before the Reformation : which fhall be
fent you from London, when we come there, or
fooner if you defire it.

R. Jenkin.

Oft. 17, 1709.
Dear Sir,

Bifhop Fifher's Picture is now co-
pied, and fo well done, that his Lordfhip has
been thinking of parting with the Original to
you, but the Painter told him, the Boards upon
which it was painted, if any Accident fhould
happen to it in the Carriage, could not be put
together again, fo as not to blemiih the Picture.
The Copy cofl io£. by which you may guefs it
is not ill done. And indeed, as it has hit the
Likenefs, fo it is as well (if not better) rinifhed
than the Original.

Mr. Harbin has put fome Papers relating to

Cambridge into my Hands, which fhall be fent to

you with the Picture, when we come to London.

I fpoke to Mr. Wanley ', who is now here, to

help

Marks for printing it.* He was thought to have been as well ac-
quainted with the llillory and Antiquities of England as any Man
whatsoever, bee Supplement to Swiff.

1 Humfrey Wanley, the Son of Nath. Wanley, of Trinity Coif,
Oxford, who took the Degree of A.B. there in 165-J, and of A.M.

in

* Hilkiab Bedford was born July 23, 1663, and died Nov. 26, 17:4- See an Ac-
count of him in Anecdote of JJov" ycr, p. 629; 39.

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help you to any Thing he has met with among
Mr. Harley's Papers: or any others that may be
ferviceable to you. He tells me he will write to
you from London, and offer you any Service
which he can do you, &x.

The Miftake you mention had been very in-
confiderable, if you had made it. Indeed I am
afhamed of myfelf, as often as I confider, when
many of my Friends are without that Title, to
whom it is much more due m.

R. Jenkin.

P. S. Mr. Francis Roper of St. John's College
was very defirous of a Copy of this Picture like-
wife, but the Painter's flay was fo fhort, it could
not be procured.

Sir,

in 1657, was of Edmund Hall and Univerfity College, and then
Mr. Harley's Librarian, and afterwards to Edward E. of Oxford ;
a Man of Learning, and as Mr.Hearne informs us, as well verfed in
Books, as any one of the Age, he died in 1 7 26, and was buried in the
Church of St. Mary le Bonne. See Preface to Annales Priorat. de
Dunftable, p. 7. Mr. Gale, that celebrated Antiquary, fpeaks of
him in the following Manner. — Neque filentio nobis prastcreundus
eft, vir ille peritiffimus, cujus cuftodias et fidei fuam bibliothecam
commifit honorandus admodum vir Edwardus Harleyus, Humfredus
Wanleius: cujus opera bene de nobis merendo; et d quid cujus cura
penes ipfum erat opus eflet tranfcribendo, nunquam defuit. Regift.
Honor, de Richmond. Prasf. p. 35. bee Anec. of Brit. Topog. p.
332. Vol. I. 668. and Anecdotes of Bowyer, p. 504. Many Letters
amongft the Harleian MSS. from Mr. Bagford and Mr. Baker, were
addrcfTcd to him at the Coach Office in Surrey Street, ib.

;1 He probably took the Degree of D. D. about that Time.

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Nov. 17, 1709.
Sir,

You will receive the original Picture of
Bifliop Fiirier", which I hope will come fafe to
you. The Copy is well done, and has a great
Likenefs, but reprefents him at leafl ten Years
younger, which I fuppofe was the Reafon that
the Painter omitted the Age, which you will find
to agree with the Face, and with the Infcription.
I have likewife in the fame Cafe fent you fome
Papers of Mr. Harbin's, who gives his Service.

Mr.Wanley came to Town with us, but I have
not feen him fmce ; when I do fee him, will put
him in Mind of his Promife, if he has not writ-
ten to you.

Dear Sir,

Your humble Servant,

R. Jenkin.

Dec. 3, 1709.
Dear Sir,

1 am glad that the Picture came fafe,
and that you approve of it. His Lordfhip is very

well

n This Picture of the Founder, for fo he is filled in Mr. Baker's

Will, was bequeathed by him to the Matter Dr. Newcome or Col-
lege, who told a Friend that of the two Pictures of him in the Col-
lege, the bell (which is reckoned to be done by Hans Holbein, the
molt celebrated Portrait Painter of thofe Times, as all who have feen.
it, and know his Style and Manner judge it to be his) has A0. JEta-
tis 74. upon it, which will fhew the Date (as he was born at Bever-
iev in Yorkshire in 1439) to be about two Years before his Death.

The

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well difpofed, and I am fare would be very will-
ing to gratify you in any Thing elfe, if his Li-
brary could afford any Materials for the great
Work which you have in Hand0.

I fpoke to Mr. Wanley, who is not unmindful
of his Promife, but fays he will not trouble you
with a Letter, till he has fomething better to pre-
fent you, which he doubts not he fhall have this
Winter among Mr. Harley's MSS.

Mr. Wanley has the greateft Collection of
Englifh Bibles, Pfalters, &c. that ever any one
Man had. They coft him above 50^. and he
has been above twenty Years in collecting them.
He would part with them, I believe, but 1 know
not at what Price. I wi(h that fome of the Be-
nefactors to St. John's Library would purchafe
them, for they are a very great and valuable Ra-
rity; as the chief kind of Things there wanted.

I was pleafed to fee an Edition of the New
Teftament by Taverner, A. D. 1540, to have fo
much in it verbatim of our prefent Tranflation,
and better fpelt than I ever obferved Englilli at
that Time p.

There

The other reprefents him as much thinner in the Face, and feems to
have been taken juft before his Execution (on the zzd of June, 1535}
a Skeleton and Crucifix being before him.

0 Athenre Cantabrigienfes.

p This Tranflation of the Bible (in MDXXXIX) is a great Ra-
rity, for which the Tranflator is faid to have been fent to the Tower,
but for what Realbn cannot eafily be found, only he was then or

foon

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There is another Rarity then- to be fold; which
is proffered to my Lord, a Collection of Pam-
phlets, in Number 30000, bound in 2000 Vo-
lumes. The Collection was begun by King
Charles the Firft in 1640, and continued to 1660.
In a printed Paper, where I faw this Account, it
is faid the Collectors refufed 4000^. for themq.

R. Jenkin.

He mentions likewife Scot's MS. Hiftory of the
Univerfity of Cambridge amongft a Collection of
Books then felling by Auction, which it might be
agreeable to him either to purchafe or copy, and
which (hews how diligent he was by himfelf or
Friends in inquiring after every Thing upon that
Subject, which he had fo much at Heart, and
which his indefatigable Labours and Abilities en-
abled him to have carried into Execution, had he

met

foon after looked upon as heretically inclined, and the King's fa-
mous Bible being printed the fame Year, from which this varies con-
fiderably ; offence might be juftly taken, and yet it is printed by
Licence, and dedicated to the King.

This Tranflation feems to be for the mod Part according to that
of Tyndall, which was one Thing that might poffibly give Offence,
he being burnt for an Heretick. Baker's Notes.

See one of them, in the Library of the Univerfity of Cambridge,
A. 4. 25. and another in that of St. John's Coll. T. 6. 14.

For an Account of Rich. Taverner, fee Mafters's Hill, of C. C.
C. C p. 389.

1 This Colleftion (as I have been informed) was made by an An-
ceftorof Henry Siflbn, Druggift on Ludgate Hill or Street; in whofe
Poifeffion they were about thirty five Years fince. They were pur-
chafed by the prefent King, and prefented to the Britilh Mufenm.
Brit. Topogr. Vol. I. p. 609.

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met with fultable Encouragement, with the
greateft Credit to himfelf and Honour to the
Univerfity ; but fuch were the unhappy Divifions
of thofe Times, that although the greater Part of
his Life was fpent in making Collections for fuch
an Hiftory r, yet he never met with a proper Pa-
tronage for fuch a Work, and fo never digefted
any of them, but thofe of his own College, the
Hiftory of which, down to the Reftoration is
well drawn up, and now compleat in the Britifh.
Mufeum, and highly deferving of Publication5.

Ilearne

r Enquiry being made concerning this Undertaking, it was an-

fwered in the following Manner. Per Epiftolam quaeflta e — —

Bentheimo.

Qu. Quinam viri in Collegiis Acad. Cantab, a tempore Funuatio-
nis ufque ad hanc .ctatem maxime floruerint ?

Refp. Johan. Bakeras * Coll. Div. Johan. non ita pridem Socius,
jam vero Commenfalis, Acad. Cantab. Hifloriam conicribendam fuf-
cepit. Quae, ut caetera omnia ad Acad, illam fpe&antia, ita virorum
qui in fingulis ejufdem Collegiis maxime floruerint, Opera Vitafque
exhibebit.

Quod autem ad illam Acad. Cant. Hifloriam, quam fi quis alius
Operi tanto par Rev. Joh. Bakerus con [briber, dam fufcepit, quan-
quatn hominem ipfum a biennio non viderim, neque ab alio aliquo
intellexerim quos in eo Opere progreflus fecerit, non dubito tamen,
quin quanta poteft in eo diligentia utetur. Sin vero de hac ex al-
tera ilia Oxon. Acad. Hiftoria ab Ant. a Wood confcripta conjectu-
ram facere liceat, hsec non nifi pofl aliquot annos expeclanda erit f.

3 'Tis true Mr. M had a Converfation with Dr. P on this

Subject, but not to fuch a Purport, as it is without his leave report-
ed to be in Topogr. Brit. N. c. p. 219. and in Anec. of Bowyer, p.

6 1 6. Since Mr. M never did or ever meant to afTert it vvas wrote

* under the Influence of Prejudice,' as there mifreprefented. Some-
thing of that Kind might be hinted by Dr. P — but Mr. M — ap-
prehends
* Errat. pro Tho. B .

t VideBakeri MS5- Vol. XL. ad finem.

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Hearne fays, Optandum eft ut fua quoque Col-
lectanea de Antiquitatibus Cantabrigienfibus juris
faciat publici CI. Bakerus, quippe qui Eruditio-
ne fumma Judicioque acri et fuba&o polleat. —
Had his Defign ever been completed, it would
far have exceeded Wood's Performance for Ox-
ford, notwithstanding the Reflection, as unjuft as
fevere, with which the Writer of Wood's Article
in the Biographia Britan. infults us. For to the
Application and Induftry of the latter, Mr. Baker
united a penetrating Judgment and great Cor-
reclnefs of Style j and thefe Improvements of the
Mind were crowned with thofe amiable Qualities
of the Heart, Candour and Integrity'. Mr. Ba-
ker, however, in his Modeft Way, feems to dis-
claim any fuch Superiority, in a Letter to Mr.
Rawlins of Pophill, now amongft Ballard's Col-
lections in the Bodleian Library, and communi-
cated by an ingenious Friend late of Oxford, to
the following Purport. " To your Inquiry con-
£C cerning Athens Cantabrigienfes, I can give you
" no fure Account, only it is certain Mr. Rich-
cc ardfonu is making Collections towards fuch a

" Work,

prehends without much Reafon, as he does not fee any Grounds for
fuch Prejudices, in Timer fo diftant from his own. But indeed Mr.
G — is fo unfortunate as not only to have mifreprefented Mr. M —
here, but in every other Part of his very inaccurate Work, wherevr
his Name is mentioned. Pref. p. 23,4.

1 See Anecdotes of Brit. Topography, p. .103.

u Afterwards D.T). and Mafter of Eman. Coll,

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<c Work, and I have furniflied him with fome-
cc what towards this College. It is a Work I was
" inclined to myfelf, but our Regifters are fo im-
tc perfect, that as far as I underftand fuch Things,
" it is hardly poffible to give a perfect Account of
<c any Thing, near to what Mr. Wood has done
tc at Oxford. If Mr. Richardfon finds it other-
*c wife, I fhall be glad of his SuccefsV

He was known to be fo well veiled in the Hif-
tory and Antiquities of this Kingdom, that fcarce
any Thing of that Sort was published without
fome Application to him, who was always found
very ready to give any Affiftance, and very com-
municative of his Knowledge, as the fever al Par-
ties who applied to him, make honourable Men-
tion of.

Dr. Walker, in the Year 1714, acknowledges
his Affiftance in his Account of the Numbers and
Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of Eng-
land, faying the greateft Hopes he had conceived
of this Kind, were upon the Informations of fuch
learned Perfons, as had more than a common Re-
putation for Antiquities ; in which Number he
ranks Mr. Baker, for his friendly Affiftance in the?
Univerfity of Cambridge.

A fhort Time before his Ejectment from his
Fellowfhip, Bp. Burnet wrote him the following
Letter, exprefling his great Concern for the

Churches'

y Dated 23 Aug. 1735.

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Churches' Lofs, by the Deprivation of fo many
worthy Men, who quitted their Preferments on
Account of their Confciences.

London, Jan. 29, 1714.V
Rev. Sir,

According to your Direction, I fent
a Book to Mr. Wyat, where your Order will find
it ; and when you have found the Leifure to go
through it, I am in hope that your Zeal for
Truth, and Goodnefs for myfelf, will prevail over
that modeft Averfion that you exprefs, to the
cenfuring of what you may find amifs in it.

I do not deny that I thought a late Volume y
was written by one in St. John's College : fince
fome there, as they had much Leifure, fo were
very capable of compofing that Work, that was
written with a great deal of Gravity and De-
cency.

I never think the worfe of Men, for their dif-
ferent Sentiments in fuch Matters : I am fure I
am bound to think much the better of them 5 for
adhering firmly to the Dictates of their Confci-
ence, when it is fo much to their Lofs, and when
fo facred a Thing as an Oath is in the Cafe. But
I have fo great a Regard both to yourfelf and
your Friends, that as I am extremely forry that
the Church hath fo long loft the Service of fo

worthy

y The Hereditary Right of the Crown aflerted.

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worthy Men, fo am very glad to have it in my
Power, from what you write to me, to vindicate
both you and them in that Particular: for I am
with a true and high efteem,
Rev. Sir,

Your mod affectionate

and mod humble Servant

Gi. Sarum.

This learned Prelate, although he was not at
Liberty to mention Mr. Baker's Name, yet ac-
knowledges his Afliitance in correcting fome
Mistakes in the two firft Volumes of his Hiftory
of the Reformation. " A Gentleman," fays he
in his Preface2 to the third Volume, " in one of
the Univerfities, has fent me a copious Collec-
tion of Remarks, on both my former Volumes,
but on Condition not to name him ; which I will
obferve religioufly, fince I promifed it, though it
be not eafy to myfelf. Since I may not own to
whom I owe fo great an Obligation, I fupprefs
none of them, but give them entirely as he offered
them to me." And they are accordingly printed
there.

In a Letter from the learned Dr. William Wot-
ton to Dr. Waller of St. John's College, dated I
Dec. 171 5, he expreiTes himfelf concerning thefe
worthy Men in the following Manner.

C "I

* P. ?-

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u lam heartily forry for my old Friends in the
College j and would give a great deal, had I great
deal to give, that a Way could be found to get
them overlooked. The unhappy Commotions of
reftiefs Men, have done thefe honeft and worthy
Men a Mifchief."

But notwithstanding thefe good Willies of their
Friends, he with feveral other learned, peaceable
and inoffenfive Men, were difpofTefTed of their
Fellowships on 20 Jan. 1716 a. This of all Mr.
Baker's Sufferings feems to have affected him the
mod, and to have given him the greatefl Uneafi-
nefs, not fo much on Account of the Profits arif-
ing from his Fellowfhip, as that fome, whom he
took to be his fincerefl Friends, came fo readily in-
to it, particularly Dr.Jenkyns their Mafter. From
this Time he fliled himfelf in all his Books, Tho.
Baker, Coll. Jo. Socius ejectus, and on a Letter
from Dr. Jenkyns, directed to Mr. Baker, Fellow
of St. John's College, he made the following Re-
mark, c I was fo then, and little thought it would
be bv him I fhould be no Fellow.' This Dr. Ro-
bert Jenkyns had been himfelf a Nonjuror, and
very intimate with Mr. Baker, and even wrote a
Defence of the Profeffion of Lake, Bp. of Chichef-
ter, concerning Paffive Obedience and the new-
Oaths, after having given up the Precentorfhip of

Chi-

a To the Number of Twenty-two in that College only, whofe
Names are mentioned in App. to the Lite of Kettlewell, p. 33.

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Chichefter, and Vicarage of Waterbeach, on that
Account. He complied, however, about the Time
of his being prefered to the Mafterfhip of his Col-
lege (on Apr. 1 6, 1711) and fo became the In-
ftrument of ejecting his old Friends and AfTociates.
In this Step, though he is faid to have acled with
Reluctance againft his Friends, and merely in
Obedience to the indifpenfable Injunctions of the
Government b, yet he was made uneafy by the
Sufferers on that Account ; which occafioned him
to decline, and in fome Years to lofe both his
Memory and Underftandi ng.

Sir Paul Whichcote c, a worthy Baronet of Quoy
in Cambridgeshire, wrote to Mr. Baker upon this
Occafion, in the following friendly and obliging
Manner.

Sir,

I received your extreme kind Letter fome
Days ago, in which there were fo many obliging
Exprefiions, which are much more the Effecl: of
your Goodnefs, than due fo any Merit of mine.

I fliould have been glad to have done Mr. Bil-
lers d and yourfelf Service upon any Acco>\nt, and

would

0 Mr. B. is faid to be quire wrong in imagining he could do more
for him than he did, fince he was icreened, till Notice came from
Above that this would no: be overlooked any longer. T. F.

c See an Account of this Family in Whifton's Memoirs, p. 369.

d John Billers, B. D. Fellow of St. John's College, was chofen
Publick Orator of the Univerfity in 168 f , but deprived for refufing

C z the

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would have omitted no Care or Pains to have ef-
fected it, but have this Difconfolation, to confider
that I have only laid an unprofitable Obligation
upon you, fince you are pleafed to own it as
fuch.

I fliould have been forward to have made Ac-
knowledgments before, for all thofe obliging Ex-
preffions in your Letter in refpedl: to my Uncle \
as well as myfelf, but I had a mind firft to ac-
quaint Lord Orfordf, with the grateful Senfe you
have of his Readinefs and Willingnefs to ferve you
in that Affair, which is now done. And I am
going, upon the finifhing of this Letter, to wait
upon my Lord of Ely8, on the fame Account.

Sir, I fhall be very forry, if what has happened,
fhall put you upon removing to fome Place, per-
haps not fo agreeable to yourfelf, and deprive
your Friends of the Benefit of your Converfation.

I could never have any Sufpicion, that fo good
a Perfon as you are, could be capable of doing
any Injury to the Government; and therefore am

fo

the new Oaths at the Revolution. A truly learned and good Man,
as Mr.W (tiles him.

e Sir Jeremy Whichcote, a noted Royaliit. See Eachard's Hire.,
of England, Vol. III. p. 807.

* Edward Earl of Orford, Son of Edward Rnffel, Efq; See Peer-
age of England, 1709, p. 293. and Campbell's Lives of Admirals,
Vol. III. 67.

R Dr. William Fleetwood, a celebrated Preacher, translated from
St. Afaph to Ely in 1714.

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fo far from fuppofing, that I can fuffer on any
fuch Account, that I rather efteem it as an Ho-
nour, to have attempted to ferve youh, and fhall
always remain, Sir,

Your moft faithful

and moft humble Servant

Pa. Whichcote.

And this Application of his Friends in his Be-
half, mult have arofe entirely from the Senfe they
had of the agreeablenefs of that Situation to him,
and not from the Revenue arifing from it; for fo
little follicitous was he about temporal Affairs,
that afterwards, when in the Year 1723, the Re-
gistering Act parTed, his Nephew Burton wrote to
defire he would regifter his Annuity of 40^. per
Ann. (which the Act required before it was
amended and explained). Though this Annuity
was now his whole Subfiftence, yet he could not
prevail with him to fecure himfelf againft the
Act, but he wrote to him thus in Anfwer.

" I thank you for your kind Concern for me,
and yet I was very well apprized of the late Act ;
but don't think it worth the while at this Age,

and

h A Remark of Dr. Williams in the Margin, " What this Service
was I do not know, by the Date of the Letter I imagine there had
been fome Defign of getting him and Mr. Billers reftored to their
Fellowships, or a Penfion, or fomething in lieu of them." The Let-
ter is indorfed in Mr. B — 's own Hand, " Sir P. W.'s Letter, who
kindly offered himfelf without being applied to,''

C 7

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and under fuch Infirmities, to give myfelf or my
Friends to much trouble about it. I don't think
that any Man living, befides myfelf, knows cer-
tainly that it is charged upon any Part of Coufin
Baker's Eftate ; or if they do, I can hardly be-
lieve, that any one for fo poor and fo uncertain
a Reward, will turn Informer; or if any one can
be found fo poorly mean and bafe, I am fo much
acquainted with the Hardfhips of the World, that
I can bear it. I doubt not but I fhall live, under
the fevereft Treatment of my Enemies : or if I
cannot live, I fhall furelydie, and that is comfort
enough to me.

If a Conveyance will fecure us againfl the Act,
I am willing to make fuch a Conveyance of the
Annuity to you, not fraudulently and in trufr,
but in as full and abfolute a Manner as Words
can make it : and if that fhall be thought good
Security, I defire you will have fuch a Convey-
ance drawn and lent to me by the Port, and I
will fign it, and leave it with any Friend you fhall
appoint, till it can be fent to you.

This Annuity of forty Pounds a Year was left
by his Father's Will for his Fortune '; befides

which

1 There is an ill-natured Remark upon this Annuity being held
with his Fellowship, in the Anecdotes of Bowyer, p.614. asifincon-
filtent with it, whereas the great decreafe in the Value of Money
fince the Foundation cf the College, may eafily reconcile it to the
Statute.

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which, his elder Brother by Will left him twenty,
Pounds a Year out of his Collieries from the Day
of his Death (which happened in Auguft 1699)
for the remaining Part of a Leafe, which deter-
mined at Whitfontide 1723, the very Year that
this Regiftering Act took place. Yet after the
the lofs of his Fellowship, and the Determination
of this Leafe, he lived comfortably and much to
his own Satisfaction upon his Annuity. And
though he had many kind Offers, as I have been
credibly informed, particularly from Dr. Kennet,
Bp. of Peterborough, who not long after his Pro-
motion to that See, referved fome of his beft Pre-
ferments for Mr. Baker, and would not give them
even to his own Son, till the other had modeftly
declined them; intimating that the Pittance that
was left him, would with good Oeconomy, carry
him comfortably through the World k: being
well apprized that the Seat of Contentment is in
the Mind, and if that was not eafy in itfelf, no
outward Circumftances could make it fo; and
that every Trifle would make it otherwife; and
that even Profperity itfelf cannot be born, with-
out a good Degree of Patience.

Nay, in all Viciffitudes it is plain that he could
fuit his Mind to his Circumftances, and taking

upon

'"■ In which Selfdenial, he much refembled Mr. John Hale, Fellow
of Eton College, of whom an Account may be feeii in the Life of
Lord Clarendon, p. ;}, ,.

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upon him the whole Armour of God, was able to
withftand the evil Day, and to remain ftedfaft
and immoveable, both in doing and fuffering his
Will, as may be feen in a Soliloquy of his in the
Appendix.

His Acquaintance with Dr. Grey, feems to
have commenced at leaft as early as the Year 1 7 1 8,
when we meet with a Letter to him, dated 5
March, from Cambridge, and which continued
till the Time of his Death without the leaft In-
terruption.

Worthy Sir,

This Dav, and this verv Mo-
ment, I received your Books, printed and MS.
and though I have had but little Time to perufe
them, yet I can eafily guefs I am much in your
Debt, and wifh I knew how to be out of it.

When I return you the MSS. which I doubt
not are very valuable, I muft think of fome fmall
Token of Acknowledgment, though much be-
neath the Favours with which you have loaded
me.

Hemingius's Poem, dedicated to Queen Eliza-
beth, is undoubtedly an Original, and as fuch is
a Rarity, though the intrinfic Value be not
much; I don't know that it has been printed,
and I am apt to think never will. The other
two have lefs to fay for themfelves, and yet they
* are

[ 4' 3

are not to be defpifed, but I muft not make a
Judgment upon fo tranfient a View as I have yet
had.

If I meet with Dr. Beveridge's Pande&ae Cano-
num, I fhall be fure to remember. It begins
now to be fcarce and dear, and it is very valua-
ble; I have it not in my Study, and indeed fcarce
any Books that are in our Library.

I thank you for your kind Invitation, but
without Compliment, I am not fit to go any
where beyond my own Chamber, where I fhall
always be glad to wait upon you, when your Oc-
cafions call you this Way.

Dr. Dickins is very agreeable Company, whom
I will acquaint with the Favour you offer him,
the next Time I meet him at the Coffee Houfe.
I am, Sir,

Your moft obliged humble Servant,

Tho. Baker.

By another, dated 14 June, 1722, he acknow-
ledges his Receipt of the Doctor's Recommenda-
tion of Dr. Cutler, an eminent New England Di-
vine, and once Governor of Yale College, with
three other Gentlemen, Mr. Johnfon, Mr. Brown
and Mr. Cherkley, who came into England for
Millions, and were favoured with Degrees at Ox-
ford, in the following Words.

Worthy

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Worthy Sir,

Not knowing whether I mall fee
Dr. Cutler and his Friends any more, I fend this
by the Carrier, with my Thanks for the Favour of
your lad Letter.

The Dr. and his Friends return with the fame
Degrees they had at Oxford, which by the fhort
Conversation I had with them, as well as by the
Teftimony of better Judges, I find they very well
deferve.

I hope they will meet with better Encourage-
ment, from thofe that are beft able to confer it.

You will probably have feen Dr. Middleton
"before you receive this, who will acquaint you
with our Affairs, and make it needlefs for me to
add any more, than that I am

Yours, fcc.

Tho, Baker.

In another, dated 10 Oct. 1724.

— . The Book I received, for which and

many others, I return you hearty Thanks. I de-
are you will give yourfelf no further trouble to
look out more, I have Books enough: this latter
will be a very proper Employment for my old
Age, if I have Grace to ufe it. The other Book
I fent to the Matter of Magdalen, who was glad
nothing new happened fince you left usj the

Friends

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Friends you name return their humble Services,
with Dr. Middleton's, who is now with us, and
Mr. Newcome, who thanks you for your kind

Letter.

There are two large Volumes of original Let-
ters of Mr. Baker to the well known Mr.Thomas
Hearne, the Oxford Antiquarian, now in the Bod-
leian Library, beginning about the Year 17 16;
from whence it appears, that he gave him mar-
vellous AfTiftance, in all the Books he publifhed
from that Time to his dying Day, and which
abundantly fhews his great critical Skill in Eng-
lifh Hiftory, and particularly in that of Books
relating thereto : and from whence many ufeful
and inftructive Extracts might be made, of fuch
Things as were not publifhed by Mr. Hearne;
whom we find very liberal in his Acknowledg-
ments for his moil friendly AfTiftance in almofl
every Book he publifhed.

Thus in his Preface to Sprott's Chronicon l,
fpeaking of Nic. Cautelupe's Hiftory of the Uni-
verfity of Cambridge, Baker us Amicus nofter in-
tegerrimus et doctiflimus; aliique fapientes Can-
tabrigienfes flocci faciunt.

And again, — idem teftatur Codex Cantabri-
gienfis, ut e Literis Antiquarii amiciffimi doctif-
fimique Thomas Bakeri S.T.B. intellexim.

In

1 P. 36. A. D, 1719.

m Prscfat. Rob. de Avefbury Hift. P. IV. A. D. 1720.

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In his Preface to the Hiftory of Glaftonbury ",
he fays, " I cannot but here acknowledge that
that great Man, the Rev. Mr. Baker of Cambridge,
was pleafed, while the Book was under the Prefs,
to fend me fomething curious relating to this
Subject, (viz. a Catalogue of its Abbots, 5cc.)
which fhall be placed by me in the Appendix."

And farther, In principio exemplaris Catalog!
hujufce, mihi ab amiciilimo Tho. Bakero S.T.B.
Cantabrigienfi Antiquario equidem fpectatae vir-
tutis donati, haec inter alia, a manu (r.empe Ba-
keri) fcripta habentur, &c.°

In his Preface to Robert of Gloucefter's Chro-
nicle, publifhed in 1724, he gives a large Ac-
count of the Nuremberg Chronicle, Hartman
Schedelp, &c. given to Chrift College, (Clafs D. 4,
2.) by Ferdinando Pulton, Efqj the great common
Lawyer, who had been Scholar and Fellow there,
as it appears from Mr. Baker's Letters, and the
very Words of the Infcription therein q.

" In turning over my Papers (faith Mr. Baker)
<{ I find we have another Copy of Hartman Sche-
" del, &c. at ChrifVs College, given to that Col-
11 lege by Ferd. Pulton, Efq; admitted Scholar in

" his

" P. LXXX. Append. N.XI. A. D. v/zz.

° Prxfat. Johan. Forduni Schoti-Chron. p. cexvui.

* See a full Account of this Book from Baker's MSS. Vol. XXIX.
p. 408. inferred in the Append.

<* See the latter end of the ift Vol. MS.

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" his You the into Chrift College in Cambridge,
" the laft Yeare of the Reigne of King Edward the
" Sixt, where he continued until the laft Yeare
■' of Queene Marye, tooke the Degree of A. B. in
" I555> anc^ was ma(^e Fellowe of the fame Col-
" lege one Yeare before he departed thence r.
cc Became afterwards a painfull Student, and
" Profeflbr of the Common and Statute Lawes
" of this Realme (as may appeare by feverall
tc Books or Workes by him compofed and pub-
{C lifhed in Print, tending to the knowledge and
" divulging of the fame Lawes) even untill his
" age of fourfcore Years and upwards5. For
" the Love and Affection which he did beare to
" to the faid College, his Nurfe and School-mif-
" trefs, and in token of good Will to the fame
*€ Houfe, did upon the fixt Daye of September,
" anno Domini 1617, et anno Regni Jacobi 15,
" beflowe this Booke upon the Mafter and Fei-
(l lowes of the forefayd Colledge, and their Suc-
" cefTorsi too meane aGuifte for fo worthie, and
" well deferving a Place: intended neverthelefs
" to have beene much greater, had it not beene
t{ extenuated by the Charges and Expences of his
" Travail and Labours in the Workes aforefaid,

" wil-

r Had the induftrious Author of Athen. Oxon. ever feen this re-
markable Infcription, he never would have placed him at Brazen
Nofe, amongft the Oxford Writers.

5 20 Jan. 1617. **< g2- See Athen, Oxon. Vol. I. p. 319,

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" willingly beftowed npon the Profeflbrs of the
c< fame Studie, for the Benefit of his Countrie
<£ and Commonwelth thereof, by me

" Fernando Pulton, of Burton

" in theCountie and Parifh of

" Buckingham."

We find Mr. Hearne in like Manner, making
honourable Mention of Mr. Baker, in all his fub-
fequent Works, and indeed with the greateft
Reafon : for he had been indefatigable in his Re-
fearches for him, and afforded him extraordinary
Affiftance in carrying them on to the laft.

Mr. Hearne willing to teftify a grateful Senfe
of the many Favours conferred upon him by Mr.
Baker, writes thus to him from Oxford, July 3,

!783-

Hon. Sir,

Having been informed by Mr.
Rawlyns of Pophill \ of your noble Defign of con-
tinuing Mr. Wood's Athens, and that any No-
tices which would be ferviceable to fuch an Un-
dertaking, would be kindly received, I drew up a
fhort Account of the Life of my learned and in-
genious Friend Mr. Graves, which, however un-
fit I am for fuch a Purpofe, I will venture to
communicate to you.

Tho. Hearne.

By

1 Near Alcefter in Warwickfhi;e

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By thefe means, fuch a Friend/hip was con-
traded between them, as continued to the Death
of the former: which the latter, in a Letter to
the fame Tho. Rawlyns, Efq; thus laments.

Worthy Sir,

I have the Favour of your Let-
ter, and am to thank you for your Account of
the lofs of our common Friend, and heartily con-
dole with you upon that melancholy Occafion ;
and for the common lofs, not only to you and me,
but more fo to the Public ; I often cautioned him
againft fatiguing himfelf too much, and over-
loading his Constitution, but he was not to be
advifed, and fo dies a Martyr to Antiquities.

Yours,

Tho. Baker.
Camb. Aug. 23, 1735.

Mr. Baker had likewife a Ccrrefpondence with
Dr. Thomas Smith, of Magdalen College at Ox-
ford (a great Friend of Mr. Hearne's, and whole
Letters and Papers he inherited) for whom he
copied K. Edward VI's Letters to Queen Cathe-
rine Parr, from the Librarv of C. C, C. C.J

A Divine of great Eminence, Dr.Jolm Smith x,

in

u Mr. Hearnc left a Life of himfelf in MS.

* In Hearne's Append, to Tit. Livii Foro-Julienfis Vitas Hen. V.
Reg. Angl. publ, i 7 16- containing a Collection of Letters of great
Perfons,

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in his Preface to his Edition of Venerable Bede's
Ecclefiaftical Hiftory (publifhed by his Son George
Smith, Efq; in 1722) thus fpeaks of Mr. Baker \

Hujus Impreflionis mihiCopiam fecit ex Biblio-
theca Coll. Corp. Chrifti Cant. Vir celeberrimus
at que Antiquitatum omne genus peritiflimusTho-
mas Baker S.T.B. quern ob prascipuam ejus erga
me benevolentiam atque honoris caufa nomino z.

Dr. Samuel Knight likewiie, in his Introduc-
tion to the Life of Erafmus a, makes honourable
mention of him. " Monfieur Le Clerc for fome
" (as he thought) critical Miitakes, would endea-
" vour to leflen the Credit of Erafmus, but I
" could almofl forgive him, for having done
" more for the honour of our Author in having
" fo great a Hand in the Publication of his
" Works, than he hath difhonour to him ; efpe-
cc cially too, fince they ftand judicioufly confut-
" ed, by a very learned Friend (Mr. Baker in his
<c Reflections upon Learning] to whom I take
" this Opportunity of paying my Acknowledg-
" ments, for the Afilllance he has afforded me
cc towards this Work, and thereby contributed
" to the farther honour of Erafmus and his Eng-

" lifh

y See his Character in Carter's Hill, of Camb. p. 258.

z He was buried in St. John's College Chapel, 30 Jul. 1713, at
the Age of 56, with a long Infcription over him by his learned
Friend Mr. Baker, which although printed by Le Neve. Vol. V. p
266. and Blomfield 123. Collect. Cantab, fhall have a Place in the
Append.

a Publifhed in 1726. p. 16.

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tc lifh Friends." And again in the Life of Eraf-
mus at p. 88. he ftiles him <{ the greater! Mailer
<c of the Antiquities of this our Univerfity."

The late learned Hilkiah Bedford, one likewife
of the ejected Fellows of St. John's College, in
Prcefatio Vitas Johannis Barwick S.T.P. published
by him, from the MS. depofited in that College
Library by his Brother Peter, the Author, thus
{peaks of him, Amicifilmus mei Thomas Bakerus,
egregium illius Collegii Ornamentum, atque An-
tiquitatum Cantabrigienfmm ftudiofi fir mus peri-
tiiTimufque. To this Book, printed in 172 1,
there were eleven or twelve hundred Subfcribers,
and yet a Tranflation was called for in three
years Time ; which was made by the Editor, and
publifTied with many curious Notes in 1724. Of
whom may be feen a long Account in Carter's
Hiilory of Cambridge (p. 261.) which Hiflory
was chiefly compofed from the Collections of the
Rev. Rob. Smith of Woodfton; whofe Handwrit-
ing was ^o bad, and the Compiler fo ignorant
and illiterate, that it abounds with innumerable
Faults.

Mr. Browne Willis, in like Manner, freely ac-
knowledges his Affiitance in the feveral Works that
he was from time to time carrying on -, as does
alfo Mr. Francis Peck, ;n his Preface to the fiiir.
Volume of his Defiderata Curiofa, in the follow-
ing Terms. " For this, and a multitude of other

D uncom-

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uncommon Favours, which Mr. Baker for a long
courfe of Years, has moft generoufly done me, I
fhould of all Men living, certainly be the moft
ungrateful, if I did not here make him this pub-
lick Acknowledgment;" and indeed in the Pre-
face to the fecond Volume, and elfewhere, he fre-
quently repeats thefe Acknowledgments; as many
of the moft curious of them had been copied from
his Collections, fuch as Queen Elizabeth's Recep-
tion and Entertainment at Cambridge, Count
Arundel's Apology, the Life of Mr. John Bois,
Smith's Obituary, &c. and in particular for two
Letters concerning Dr. Anthony Walker, the Au-
thor of the Life of Dr. John Bois, with fome
farther Particulars relating to the Life and Death
of the latter b.

The learned and celebrated Dr. Middleton in
his Differtation concerning the Origin of Print-
ing in England, after producing three Authorities
for its Origin at Mentz, viz. Caxton himfelf, the
Black Book, or Regifter of the Garter, and Fa-
bian's Chronicle, adds, thefe three Teftimonies
have not been produced before that I know of >
two of them were communicated to me by Mr.
Baker, who, of all Men, is the moil able, as well
as the moft willing, to "five Information in every
Point of curious and uncommon Hiftory. And
in his De Medicor. apud vetcrcs Romanos clegcn-

tium

' See Life of Cromwell, p. :;j, 4.

t 5> ]

tiara conditione DifTertatio, he thus fpeaks of
him, Bakerus denique nofter, qui Colloquiis hifce
noftris, non intereffe folum, fed pro ilia, qua
praeftet omnibus, Antiquitatis cognitione, prasefle
etiam folebat; cum Opinioni meoe fuse etiam (cn^
tentiee pondus, tanquam cumulum quondam ad-
jeciflit. p. 5.

The late worthy and learned Dr. John Ward,
when meditating the Lives of the Grefham Pro-
feflbrs, got a Friend to communicate his defign
to Mr. Baker, who not only approved of it, but
agreeably to his conftant readinefs to promote
every laudable Undertaking, for the Improvement
of Knowledge, was pleafed likewife to promife
him Affiftance, from his large and valuable Col-
lections. And not long after, fent manv Parti-
culars relating to moft of the Profefibrs, who
were bred at Cambridge".

Dr. William Richardfon, the learned Mafter of
Emanuel College in Cambridge, in his large
Work, de Praefulibus Angliae, amongft other
Helps and Affiftance he met with from MSS. and
Friends, fpeaks of Mr. Baker in the following
Manner. — Hunc Librum in ipfo Operis primor-
dio mihi commendavit Vir Thomas Baker S.T.C.
nuper e Coll. Divi Johan. Cant, cujus peritiam in
Britannicis Antiquitatibus, Comitatem Humani-

tatem-

c Pref.icc to the Lives of the Profefibrs of Grefham College,
P- 1.

D 2

[. 52 i

tatemqne in Opera et confiliis preftandis* norunt
omnes qui hafce Literas vel leviter attingerintd.

He revifed Dr. Rawlinfon's Hift. of Eton Coll.
as appears from Ballard's MS. Vol. Il.'fol. 93. in
the Bodleian Library, with his Account of pur-
chasing ibme of his Books, and Additions to
Wood's A then. Oxon. in the fame Volume.

Mr. Baker likewife greatly affifted the Editor
Mr, J. Tanner in the lait Edition of Bp. Tanner's
Notitia Monaftica, wherein he ftileshim, Amicif-
fimus, clarifllmus etVir docrifTimus Tho-
mas Baker. And in a Note at p. 155. he ac-
knowledges to have received from him, the Num-
ber of Fellows and Scholars in mofl of the Col-
leges in Cambridge.

Mr. Jofeph Ames, F.R.S. and Secretary to the
Society of Antiquaries, alfo in his Typographical
Antiquities of England, informs us that he cor-
refponded with Mr. Baker by Letter, and that he
had confiderable Amftance from him in that
Work. Some Particulars of which are fpecified
in p "52. concerning Thomas Vaiitrollier the
Printer, at p. 458. Thomas Thomafius, the Au-
thor of the Dictionary called by his Name, who-
had been Fellow of King's College, and Univer-
fity Printer, and at p. 564. a Book iutitled, A
Declaration of the trueCauies of the great Trou-
bles, prefunpofed to be intended againit the

Real mo

* Firf;.?': p. ■;,

r 53 ]

Realme of England, Sec. which was deemed Co
dangerous a Libel, again ft the Queen and Go-
vernment, that Lord Bacon thought it worth
while, to publifh Obfervations upon it in 1592.

The Editor of this Life, although he never had
the honour of his Acquaintance, being very
young at the Time of his Death, yet being well
informed of his amiable Character, makes honour-
able mention of him, both in his Preface to the
Hiitory of C. C. C. C. at p. 42. and elfe where,
and in his App. N. LIX. has given the Account
above inferted (p. 29. note g.) taken from his
own MSS.

In the Year 1725, Mr. Baker gave alTiitance to
Father Courayer6, in the Defence of our Englifh
Ordinations, on which Subject he held a Cor-
refpondence for fome Time with ABp. Wake,
who acknowledged it in the following Letter.

Rev. Sir,

Yefterday in a large Cafe, I fent by
Mr. Knapton to Mr. Crownfield your Printer,
was returned the MS. you was fo good as to fend
me, with that you will receive a Copy of Father
Courayer's Book.

I fliould have added another Copy for Dr.

Drake,

e Written in French by Father Francis Courayer, Canon Regular
and Librarian of St. Genevieve at Paris, the Tranfiation of which
by Daniel Williams, Prefbyter of the Church of England, was print*
ed likewife at Paris in J 725.

D3

[ 54 ]

Drake, but the Books we expect from Paris are
not yet arrived; and what we now have are only
a few brought over by Mr. Ott my Library Keep-
er: one of the firft, I thought myfelf obliged to
fend to you. Dr. Drake fhall have his as foon
as the Books come to hand, which we expecl:
every Day.

In this Book you will find your Name made
nfe of for the Hiftriola in the Univerfity Ar-
chives', which I hope you will excufe, though I
gave no direction for it. The good Father has,
I think, been guilty of a Blunder, in taking the
Date of that MS. from the Year 1568, under
ABp. Parker's Arms: but this may be excufed in
a Foreigner. Yet I muft do myfelf the Juftice
to acquaint you, that I cautioned him againft it,
as foon as I received your fecond Letter, and un-
derfrood that the Arms were printed, fo as to be
applied to any other MS. of a different Year; but
I doubt this was done by him before that Letter
came to hand ; the befc is, that nothing of any
Moment depends upon it. And upon the whole I
believe, you will find fewer Miitakes, in (o much
as he has publifhed of our Hiftory, than in any
Foreigner that has ever wrote of it.

I can-

f Mr. Baker'.? Name is not mentioned in Mr. Williams's Tranfla-
tion of this Book, though probably referred to in that of the Au-
thor's I'reface, p. 7. where he {peaks of his Vouchers, and regrets
the Injunction laid upon him not to divulge their Names, as they
would have done great honour to his Work.

t 55 ]

I cannot end this, without my repeated Thanks
for your great Kindnefs to him in the Profecu-
tion of this Work, which I am fure will meet
with a very favourable Reception from the learn-
ed in France.

I am, good Sir,

Your moft obliged and faithful
Friend and Brother

W. Cant.

Amongft the Letters that parTed between ABp,
Wake and Father Courayer upon his Book, con-
cerning the Validity of the Englifh Ordinations,
there is one in which his Grace with great Re-
flect mentions Mr. Baker, the famous Antiquary
of St. John's College, Cambridge, who commu-
nicated to him fome Information concerning the
Hiftriola, 6cc. relating to ABp. Parker, which was
difcovered during the Correfpondence with Cou-
rayer, in Bene't College Library. The Archbi-
iliop had before received fome AfTiftance from
this learned Nonjuror, in writing his State of the
Church, and after the Work was completed wrote
to him a Letter of Thanks; and as a Teitimony
of his Senfe of the Service he had done him, of-
fered to accept his Recommendation of a Friend
(as he could not receive it himfelf) to a Benefice
worth 2oo£. a Year, then vacant. Mr. Baker
waved this Offer; and very politely requefted his

d a Grace's

[ 56 ]

Grace's Favour might be to himfelf, by a Prefent
of a Copy of the aforefaid Work, with his Grace's
Corrections and Additions in his own Handwrit-
ing. With this the Archbifhop complied, and
fent befides, many Manufcript Evidences bound
up with the Volume, now in the Univerfity Li-
brary s.

In the Year 1728, we meet with the following
Letter, to his old Friend Mr. John Strype.

" Rev. and worthy Sir,

" After fo long a Si-
lence, I was glad to hear from you; had your
Letter brought an Account of your Health, I
lhould have been perfectly eafy, fmce if it is
otherwife, pray God comfort you under your
great Affliction. You have one fure Comfort
and Support, in having done more Service to
your Generation than any one I know. For
which you may expect a Reward in Heaven,
though not from an evil World. I was very
much concerned, to meet with that undeferved
Reflection in Father Courayer's Book, though
I am certain it cannot hurt you with candid
Readers. You can have faid nothing in your
Preface, from me, which I fhall not confirm,
or which I have already upon Occafion, to
moft of my Friends; fo that will want no Apo-
logy, be it what it will.

" I am

* :ies Biogrrph, Brir. p. 4096.

[ si ]

C£ I am glad to hear your lad Book is in fuch
c< Forwardnefs, though I have feen moll of it al~
" ready. The Compiler of the Index, Dr. Grey,
" being my particular Friend. Fie has a true
" Efteem for you, and prefents you with his Ser-
" vice. I expecl: to fee Dr. Knight the next
tc Month, in his Way to London, I will then re-
" member your Service, though you will have an
" Opportunity of doing it yourfelf, fince he in-
tc tends to fee you, and promifed to make the
" fecond Payment for me and the College, and
" to take care to convey the Books to me.

" As to myfelf, I blefs God, I enjoy a tolera-
" ble Share of Health, more than I could reafon-
<c ably expect at this Age, and much more than
" I deferve ; but yet I feel the Infirmities of Age,
cc and am very fenfible of my own Frailty and
" Mortality. You ftand in my Will for ABp.
" Bancroft's Piclure, which I am afraid you will
" hardly be the better for -3 if not, it ihall Hand as
<c the belt Teftimony of Refpecl, from, worthy
iC Sir,

cc Your moft obliged humble Servant

" Tho. Baker."

Camb. May 20, 1728.

Mr. Strype has frequently acknowledged Mr.
Baker's Affiftance in many Paxts of his Works,

par-

[ 58 ]

particularly in his Prefaces to the Lives of ABps.
Parker and Whitgift; but in that to the third
Volume of the Annals of Queen Elizabeth, the
Book abovementioned, publifhed this Year, he
thus fpeaks of him. " The Rev. T. B. S.T.B.
<c another of my Correfpondents (well known for
tC his Searches into the Hiftory of this Church
"and Kingdom) divers Years ago, upon fome
<c Occafion in a private Letter to me had thefe
<c Words, ' I have not read any Books with more
< Pleafure than I have your's, nor met with any
c Thing that beareth more lively Impreffions of
c Sincerity and Truth; and it is that, that makes
« me fo ofhcious to ferve you.' I hope that the
tC Rev. Perfon will excufe me in thus openly
c< ufing his Name, and declaring his good Opi-
«e nion of me; efpecially upon this Occafion, for
<c preferving my good Name to Posterity, and
tc Reputation of what I have writ."

Mr. Strype has fatisfactorily anfwered the mif-
taken Objections of Mr. Daniel Williams, the
Tranflator of Father Courayer's Book, and fully
juftified himfelf againft his flanderous and illibe-
ral Reflections , which occafioned the Uneafinefs
above hinted at, in the beginning of the Preface
to this Volume: upon the Publication of which
Mr. Baker wrote to him from Camb. Aug: 9,1729,
in Anfwer to one lately received.

Rev.

[ 59 ]

" Rev. and worthy Sir,

"After fo long Silence,
' I was very glad to hear of your Health, and
' that you are yet in a Condition to think of
c Bufmefs, which all the World would excufe
' you from attending, at your Age. What you
' propofe would be very agreeable to me, and
1 would certainly be of Ufe to the World; but I
1 doubt you muft not propofe any prefent Ad-
1 vantage to yourfelf, but muft be content that
' your Book will be valued, and bear a Price an
' hundred Years hence. And thus it is I com-
1 fort Mr. Willis when he complains his Books
c flick upon his Hands. Whatever you under-
' take, I fliall fubferibe for myfelf and the Col-
' lege, though the College was forgot in your
' laft Book, of which fome Notice was taken.

<c I have lately met with a fmall Volume
; of original Letters, from 1592 to 1598, from
c Lord Burleigh to his Son Sir Robert Cecill,
c which belonged to the late Bifliop of Ely, (Dr.
c Moore) you may probably have {een thefe al-
c ready, however I will fend you a Copy of the
c laft Letter, rather as a Curiofity than of Ufe.
' By that you will judge whether you have ken
' the reft.

<c Dr. Knight I have not feen this Harveft time.
c Mr. Willis has told us he is upon the Hiftory
1 of the Church of Ely, as you will find when his

" next

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ct next Book is publifhed. I wifli you Health,
tf and though I fhould be glad to fee a Continu-
" ance of your Annals, yet not otherwife than it
" will confift with your Health.

" Yours, &c.

" Tho. Baker."

Mr. Baker fent Mr. Strype likewife a long Ac-
count of Dr. Peter Baro, Margaret Profellbr of
the Univerfity of Cambridge, and of his Family,
which is barely mentioned in his fourth Volume
of the Annals of Queen Elizabeth.

Thefe Letters were afterwards publifhed by
Mr. Peck in Defid. Curiofa, Lib. V. and the Ac-
count of Dr. Baro fhall have a Place in the Ap-
pendix.

About the fame Time Dr. White Kennet, Lord
Bifhop of Peterborough \. thanks Mr. Baker for
the Affifrance he gave towards the compiling a
large Folio, publifhed by him under the Title of,
A Regifter and Chronicle Ecclefiaftical and Civil,
&c. in 1728, in the following Terms1.

" Rev.

h Well known for his celebrated Antiquities of Ambrofden and
Burcheilcr, publifhed in 4:0. 1695, and many other valuable Pieces,
whofe Character by Bp. Gibfon, may be feen in his Dedication to
his Tranilation of Somner's Treatife of Gavelkind, and in the Hif-
tory of the Bp's Life publifhed in 1730.

1 Printed in Anecdotes of Boyvyer, p. 553,

[ *i 1
" Rev. Sir,

" I have taken an Opportunity by
my Curate, Mr. Land of Clare Hall, to fend
you a tedious, heavy Book for Acceptance, not
a Prefent, fo much as a Debt in Juftice due to
you, for lending me fo many good Materials,
that your Hand could have put into better Or-
der, with more Correctness.
<c The Volume too large, brings me no Profit,
and I dare fay no Credit. In good Truth, the
the Scheme was laid for Confcience Sake, to
reftore a good Principle, that Hiflory mould be
pure Matter of Fact. And when fuch Matters
are delivered, upon profefled Authority for
them, every Reader by examining and compar-
ing, may make out an Hiflory by his own
Judgment.

" I have Collections tranfcribed for another
Volume, if the Bookfeller will run the Hazard
of Printing, which will reach to 1670. If
within that Compafs you have any Notes of
like Nature, I defire you to be of the fame
communicative Mind; and if you ever fubmit
to the dull Work, of running over the fir ft
Volume, nothing can oblige me more, than to
be told of my Faults of Commiflion, or Omif-
fion, that in a fecond Volume the World may
be honeftly informed of them.
" You will fee, I have been too much in a

" hurry

[ 62 ]

" hurry for a Writer, but without any ill Mean-
" ing. I could envy your Recefs in a College
" Life, where I am lure you are doing true Ser-
C( vice to Poflerity, and (what is greater) there
<{ defpife the prefent World.

" I have delivered to our good Friend Dr.
" Knight, your fecond Volume of Dr. Calamy's
li Abridgement, with your exact Notes upon it ;
Cl and thank you for the Ufe of that, and many
tc like Favours, and pray God to give a Blefiing
cc to your Life and Studies.

" I am
u Your very much obliged Friend and Brother,

Wh. Peterbor.
Weftminfter, Jan. 13, 1728.

Mr. Baker, according to the Bifhop's Requeft,
wrote large Notes upon the above Book, in which
is an Extract from the forementioned Letter, in-
dorfed the lad Letter I ever received from my ho-
noured Friend the Bp. of Peterborough, who died
on 19 Dec. in that Year.

His Friend Dr. Grey received a Letter from
him, dated 15 July, 1728, to the following Pur-
port, foon after his leaving Cambridge, and Ar-
rival at Houghton Conqueft in Bedfordfhire :
where as Rector, he ufually redded in the Sum-
mer Seafon.

" r>

ueav

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" Dear Sir,

" I was glad to hear you and your
" Lady came fafe to Houghton ; together with
fC your Letter the Coachman delivered the Book,
" which though imperfect (as fuch old Books
tc will commonly he) yet it is a fair Copy, and
" very valuable, and I thank you for it.

" I have two or three Books, Duplicates with
" me, which I believe you may want, when I fee
" you next, they (hall be at your Service, as a
<c Debt of Gratitude.

" I wrote to Dr. Waterland, who (with his
cc Service to you) fends this Anfwer, ' I fhould be
' glad to fee the Quarto Bible of 1569, I have
* not ken any fuch. Dr. Brett mentions an Edi-
£ tion of Archbifhop Parker's that Year, a large
' 8vok. I know no more;' fo you fee he will
<c be glad to fee your Bible, and having almoft
tc finifhed with Mr. Lewis, the fooner the better.
" However confult your own convenience.

" We have no News, all Things continue in
{C the State you left them.

" I have

k The Edition here mentioned is of the 4to Size (penes R. M.)
hut notwithftanding there are eight Leaves in each Sheet, lo that
the Paper mult have been uncommonly large, a particular Account
of which may be ken in Mr. Lewis's Hiitory of the Englifli Trans-
lations of the Bible at p. 232, 253, although he has omitted to take
Notice of the Song of Solomon, which is there ftiled, The Ballet of
Ballettes of Solomon. Dr. Waterland not only affilted Mr. Lewis,
in collating i'or him twelve MSS. of Dr. Wicklifre's Tranflation, in
the Libraries at Cambridge, but furnifhed him lilcewife, with a very
curious Account of the other Tranflations. Monthly Chron. izr
1730. p. no.

[ 6+ ]

{C I have the favour of a Vifit from the fa-
" mous Mr. Vertue, but I fhall always make good
" what I faid to you, &c."

In another Letter to the fame.

<c Dear Sir,

iC I have the Favour of your Letter
" with a Bible for Dr. Waterland. I fhall take
" care to convey it to him this Morning.

<c But I have a greater Favour to thank you
" for, which I fhall fay no more of, till I have
£C the Happinefs of feeing you at Cambridge. —
" Speaking of Dr. Waterland, puts me in mind,
<c that his Brother has nonfuited Mr. Kettle this
" Afiize, to the Satisfaction of every Body I have
" fpoke with.

" Dr. Knight was with me Yefterday in good
" Health 3 but poor Dr. Pearfon is worfe than
" ever.

" I have, I thank God, undergone Mr. Lunn's '
" Operation with Succefs. Mr. Hearne's laft
*c Book is printed off"1, but I have not yet re-
<c ceived it. I ihall prefume your Confent to

" fub-

' William, an eminent Surgeon at Cambridge, Son of Dr. William
Lunn, Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Reclor of Elfworth in Cam-
briegefhire, and Brother to the prefent worthy Redlor, Edward Lunn,
A. M. Sec Hilt. C. C. C. C. p. 343.

m Vita Ricardi II. a Monachc de Evefliam. ijzii.

[ 6S ]

tc fubfcribe for the next, viz. Annals of Edward
" the Second".

" Camb. July 24, 1722."

It appears from Mr. Ballard's MSS.° in the
Bodleian Library, that he revifed Dr. Rawlin-
fon's Hiftory of Eton College; where is likewife
an Account of purchafmg fome of his Books,
and of his Additions to Wood's Athen. Oxon.

He correfponded familiarly with Mr. Anftis,
Garter Principal King at Arms, and mod pro-
bably affifted him in his feveral Publications, as
we may infer from the following friendly Letter.

Heralds Office, 20 Jan. 1729.
<c Rev. Sir,

" I return you many thanks, for
" the Information you kindly gave me, of the
" Provifions made by fome Benefactors for their
" Kindred in your College, and I have got the
" like Inftances in feveral Colleges beyond Sea,
cc which are regularly obferved to this Day, but
" the Fellows of fome Colleges in Oxford, though
" fworn particularly to the preference of Kinf-
<; men in their Oaths upon their firft Admiffions,
c< contemn that Obligation. I fend you the Copy
"of a Grant to Dr. Caius of Arms, and I wifh

<{ you

!i Annales Edwardi II, a Johanne de Trokelow, 1729.
•Vol. II. p g-.

E

t 66 ]

" you was in Town to infpect the feveral Grants
" made to Bifhops and others, from the Time of
" Hen. VII. who have been Members of your
" Univcrnty,

cc Your mod obliged Servant,

" John Anftis."

In the Year 1730, Dr. Grey p received a Letter
from Dr. William Baker, Senior Fellow of St.
John's College, bearing Date 15 Oct. as follows,

" Dear Sir,

lc That I am fo troublefome a
{C Correfpondent to you, is at prefent owing to
" our good Friend Mr. Baker, who defired me to
" convey this Prefent of a fine Common Prayer
" Book for Mr. Willis's new Chapel, by the
" Coach that goes from hence, and if you have
*c an Opportunity, to fend it to him, or elfe let
" it remain with you, till he can fend for it him-
l( felf q. He bids me farther to add, that he hath

" now

p See an Account of him in Anecdotes of* Bcwyer, p. 354.

1 It is in Folio, printed in 1662, elegantly bound in blue Moroc-
co, and placed upon the Communion Tabie ox the beautiful Cha-
pel of St. Martin at Fenny Stratford in Buck;, built by Subfcrip-
tions raifed by the unwearied pollicitations of Mr. Willis, and nei-
ther endowed by him, or built at his expence, as eironeouily afl'er-
ted by Mr. Cough, in his Briiifh Topograph, p. itg. It was begun
in 1724* finilhed and confecrated on 27 May, 1730. The Cieling
of which, is decorated with the Arms of all the Benefactors who
ga^.e 10I. or upwards.

/ifu-r a fenous and refpeclable Character of this Gentleman, (who

died

t 67 ]

" now by him Mr. Strype's laft Volume of An-
iZ nals in MS. which had you been here, he
" thinks you was fitter to examine than himfelf,
" whether he hath been guilty of making Repe-
<c titions, a Fault he is too fubjecl to. It is to
cc remain in his Cuftody till the laft Day of this
" Month. Dr. Middleton is returned hither, and
(i he and Mr. Robinfon, are fince gone to Ld.
" Oxford's ; where I fliould have been too, if
" neceffary Bufinefs had not prevented.

cc Dr. Dickens is at London, but expected here
<c every Day. You mud: not wonder that we,
fc who are defirous of your good Company, are
" apt to think you defer your Journey too long.

" My humble Services wait upon all the good
" Company, and I am with hearty Willies for
" their good Journey home,

" Dear Dr.

" Your moll affectionate humble Servant,

" Win. Baker."

Dr. Grey,

died on 22 May, 1760) drawn bv Dr. Ducarel and others, can any
thing be more injudicious than the Addition of Mifs Talbot's Let-
ters characterizing his Daughters : which however pleafing they
might have been from one Frien i to another, could certainly never
have been dcfigned for the Publick ; no msre than Mr. Cole's De-
scription of his Drefs, publifhed from a Letter of his in Nichols*
Biogiaphical Anecdotes of Bowyer, the former at p. 24 S, the latter
at p. 58 1. which indeed Mr. C — ■ could never have confented to
give, without the greateft Ingratitude to a perfon, from whom he
received juch a confiderable Kmolument, as the Prefentation to a
valuable Living. But fuch is the prcfent Mode of Book-making,
that it is become a Vehicle for all manner of literary Scandal, even
fuch, as muft highly difgrace Lompolltions, however other wife re-
fpectable.

£ 2

[ 63 ]

Dr. Grey, in anfwer to fome Queries, received
the following Letter from Mr. Baker in the
Year 1734,

Dear Sir,

I am glad to hear of your Health,
and that you are fo well employed in examining
Mr. Neale's Bookr. I mall be glad to fee the
Fruits of your Enquiries, which doubtlefs would
be of ufe and fervice to the Publick. Dr. CowelFs
Book8 did give Offence, but it was chiefly to the
Lawyers, who are jealous of a Civilian, and ap-
prehenfive of the Civil Law's prevailing, and
gaining too much Ground from Scotland. Black-
wood's Book', might likewife give Offence, he
having wrote againft Buchanan. The Book is
fcarce, and I have it not by me. But he was a
Scot ; and the fame that compiled the Epitaph
upon the Queen of Scot's, hung up at Peterbo-
rough upon her Shrine j and had the Author
then been known to Queen Elizabeth, it might
have coil him dear.

Sir

r Dr. Madcox, afterwards Bp. of Worcester, publifhed Remarks
tipon Neal's ill Vol. of the Hiitory of the Puritans, and Dr. Grey
an Examination of the three others.

r The Beck referr'd to, was his Interpreter, fome Portions of
which, were much ciiliked by K. James 1, as appears from his
Speech to the Parliament, on ?.6 Mar. 1609. See hib Works, p. 528.

1 The Title v, Advcrfus Gcorgii Buchanani Dialogum de Jure
Uegni ajiud Scotos pro R.egibus Apologia. Per Adamum Blackvo-
ckcum Senatorem ;*pud I'ictavos, 155^.

r 69 ]

Sir Charles Cornwallis's Book" I have, but
there is no Intimation in it of the Prince's being
poyfon'd, nor in a MS. of the Bp. of Ely's
(Moore's) Library", giving a very particular Ac-
count of the Prince's Death.

Dr. Richardfony is faid to have died worth
10,0001. and only to have left. 300 1. to the Col-
lege, the reft to two Nephews. His Succeflbr
is not yet known, but one of Pembroke Hall,
Whalley I think is his Name, is like to be the
Man, and being faid to be a Man of Worth, I
wifh him Succefs.

He had a Correfpondence with Mr. Cook, who
publifhed an Edition of Hefiod, in the Year
1733, &c. as appears from his Letters, printed in
Howard's Collection, at p. 592, and which may
be properly inferted here.

Mr. Baker to Mr. Cook.

Camb.

J Son of Sir Thomas, of Brome in Suffolk, who had been Trea*
furer to Prince Henry, wrote A Difcourfe of the molt iliuftrious
Henry Prince of Wales, in 1626, which was not printed till 164.1,
4to. penes R.M.

* Printed in Dead. Curiofa, Vol. I. Lib. VI. p. I.

y Thomas Richardfon, S. T. P. ele&ed Matter of Peterhoufe
College, Dec. 9. 1699, who had been Fellow of Emanuel College,
Preacher to Gray's Inn, Fellow of Eton College and Prebendary of
Ely. He died 1733. An. JEt. 79, was interred in the College Cha-
pel, and fucceeded by Dr. John Whalley, afterwards Regius Pro-
feffor of Divinity, who died 12 Dec. 1748, and was buried iikewife
in the College Chapel.

E3

[ 7° ]

Camb. Jan. 24, 1733.
<c Worthy Sir,

" Yefterday, by the Convey-
ance of the Waggon, I received your ncble
Prefent of Books, and take the firft Opportu-
nity of returning my Thanks for fo great and
undeferved a Favour, and though I have had
little Time to perufe them, yet I have feen
enough already, to know how much I am en-
gaged to you, not only for the Prefent, but
for the Performance.

" As I am to thank you for the Books, fo am
I next to apologize for the Print, which doubt-
lefs colt you too dear ; I hope you will believe
I had not Vanity enough to countenance fuch
a Defign. When I firft heard of it, I did all I
could to fupprefs it, but it was not in my
Tower to hinder them from playing the Fool
with my Face ; they might have fpent their
Time and Pains better in taking yours, and I
dare fay more to their Advantage.
" I am forry to hear of your Want of Health,
which I fmcerely wifh you, as well for your
own Sake, as for the Ufe of the Publick. I
condole with you for the Death of my Lord
Pembroke, a Lois that will be lamented by all
thole, that have any Regard to great Worth

and much Learning.

" Yours, &c.

« Tho. Baker."

To

[ 7* ]

To Mr. Cook.

Worthy Sir,

What you have heard concern-
ing my Lord Oxford' and me, I can allure you
is a great Miftake. I have that Regard and Ho-
nour for his Lordfhip, that any Book in my
Study fliould be at his Service without Reward ;
but the Report you mention is altogether
Groundlefs, and without Foundation.

I am glad to hear of Dr. Tancred Robinfon's
Health, for whom I have the fame Eiteem he
has for me, and much more defervedly; well re-
membering the great Character he bore in Col-
lege, when mine was very obfcure. Be pleafed,
Sir, when you fee him again, to prefent my
humble Service, and bed Willies for his Health.

I wifh you Succefs in your new Edition of
Hefiod, the firft Part whereof I have perufed
with Pleafure, but am not Critic enough, to
pretend to make Improvements ; which truly,
as far as I can judge, it will not want. I am

Yours, &c.

Tho. Baker

Camb. Jul. 22, 1733

To

z Which was, that Lord Oxford had purchafed his MSS. In the
Biographia Britannica, in a Note in p. 3726, Ld. Oxford is faid
to have given him an Annuity of 60 1. per Ann. and Bp. Burnet to
have aflitted him in the fame Way.

E 4

[ 72 ]

To the fame.

I am clearly of Opinion, that it is bed for you
to retain the Latin Name of Gabriel Faernus2.
But that I might not feem to be opinionative, I
confultcd a Friend who had been in Italy, and a
Year or two at Romeb, who is of the fame Opin-
ion, and thinks if you fhould Italianize the Name,
it would be loft to Men of Letters, to whom he
is now {o well, and fo defervedly known. He
never heard of fuch a Family in Italy, and is not
fure, but he might be a German by Birth or
Extraction0.

I am to thank you for your entertaining Ac-
count of Mr. Dennis, who with his fine Parts, feems
to have been an unfortunate Man. He may have
been a Year or two older than entered upon the
Books ; for it is ufual for young Scholars, to
give in their Age too low, efpecially if they be
admitted old. I am

Yours, &c.

Tho. Baker.

In another Letter to the fame, he thus fpeaks
of the Duke of Somerfet. "He was elected Chan-
cellor

3 One of the carliefl and mod judicious Editors of Terence.

>■- Dr. Middle ton.

He i<, raid by Thuanus to have been cf Cremona, Vide Ann.
MDI.XJ.

[ 73 ]
cellor of this Univerfity, Anno. 1688", and has
continued Chancellor longer than any one ever
did, to the great Honour and Advantage of
the Univerfity : to which he has been a noble
Benefactor, by giving 500 £ towards the New
Building, or Senate Houfe, and 1000^. by him-
felf, or by his Intereft, to our Prefs ; befides
Books of a confiderable Value, Rymer's Faedera
17 Vols, and his Countenance and good Offices
at all Times.

Camb. Aug. 23, 1733.

To thfrfame.
Worthy Sir,

To your Enquiries I anfwer, Ifaac
Newton was admitted into Trinity College under
Mr. Pulleyn (the fame I prefume that was after-
wards Greek ProfefTor) Jun. 3, 1661. Art. Bac.
1664, 5. Art. Mr. An. 1668. He was likewife
admitted Socius-minor Coll. Trim Oct. 2. 1667.
and Socius-major the Year following. He fuc-
ceeded Dr. Barrow, as Mathematical ProfefTor,
Nov. 8, 1669; who, though he was not his Tu-
tor, inftructed and encouraged him in the Study
of Mathematics \

Nat.

''- As a grateful Acknowledgement of which, an elegant Marble
Statue was erected to his Memory, and placed in the Senate Houfe,
loon after his Deceafe in 1748 ; the Infcription upon which, ihall
have a Place in the Appendix.

c Mr. Cook wrote Notes upon Sir I. Newton's Chronology.

[ 74 ]

Nat. Lee (the Poet) was of the fame College,
(admitted from Weftminfter School) where I do
not find he took any Degree, as his Friend and
Collegian Mr. Dryden did ; and their being of the
fame College, might be one Ground of their
Friendfhip and Acquaintance : his End, you know,
was deplorable, and much to be lamented, and is
therefore to be palled over in Silence.

Ben. Johnfon (by Tradition) is claimed by St,
John's College, of which Houfe he is generally
allowed to have been admitted, even by Mr. Wood;
who places him among the Oxford Writers, as
having taken a Degree there. We have no Re-
gifter in the College fo antient, and therefore I
can fay nothing more fi om the College Monu-
ments. He (Ben. Johnfon) is faid to have imi<*
tated and borrowed from Plautus ; and that I
prefume was the Reafon of your Enquiry.
Wifhing you Succefs in your Undertaking, I am

Your's, &c.

Tho. Baker.

The learned Mr. Lewis, of Margate, in an Ad-
vertifement prefixt to the find Edition of his
Hiftory of the Englifh Tranflations of the Bible,
fays, " The Editor thinks himfelf obliged to own

" the great Helps he has had from

cc and the Rev. Thomas Baker, B. D." And his
Opinion cf Mr. Baker's great Judgment farther
appears, from the fubfequent Letters to Dr. Grey.

" Mar-

[ 75 ]

" Margate, May 7, 1736.

c< Rev. Sir,

" Your kind Letter of the 30th ult.
tc came hither, when I was abfent on a Journey
" to London, to look after finifhing at the Prefs,
il a new Edition of this little Ifland f; about which
cc I have been at fome Pains and Expence, in re-
tc viewing and making it fomewhat more perfect.

" I am afraid Mr. Baker and you are too fa-
cc vourable in your Judgments of my Papers; I
cc can bear being told of what is wrong, and am
" very fenfible how liable I am to blunder and
" miitake. For which Reafon I dare not trull
tc myfelf, and wifli therefore you would examine
" my Remarks on Neal, with the Eye and Heart
cc of an Adverfary, and exercife your fevered Cri-
" ticifm upon them.

" My adding a Cut of the Mafs Habits, is in-
" tended as an Appeal to the DhTenters Senfes,
" whether our Prieftly Habit be like the Papifts,
" or Miniftering Prieft of the Church of England,
Ci cannot be diftinguiflied from a Popifli Prieft s.

iC The Papers relating to Calamy, I fent to
c' you, to fee what Account I have to give of that

" furious

f The Hiftory and Antiquities of the Ifle of Tenet firft publifhed
in 4to. 1723.

p Being of Scarlet, the fame with the Doftors' Habit in Oxford,
and worn over the Rochet or Lawn Sleeves in K. Edward's Time,
but changed into Black in Q;_ Elizabeth's Reign, and ib has conti-
nued ever fince.

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<c furious Fanatic Culmer8. Calamy died juft as
" they were finifhed. For which Reafon I have
<c kept them by me ever fincej and intend fo to
"keep themh. I fhould never forgive myfelf,
" mould I act by him, and infult his Allies, as
<c he has done thofe of that learned and honed
" Man Dr. Bennet1.

" I don't know whether any of our Bookfellers
" will care to print my Remarks. I'm a Man of
" no Reputation : and that commonly recom-
tc mends a Book, as much as the Matter, and
" fometimes more. — My humble Service to the
" good Mr. Baker.

li P. S. If it be not too much to afk, I fhould
" be glad of a Copy of Caxton's Preface to his
<c Chronicle, to be fent with my Papers."

In another of June 3, 1736.

" Rev. Sir,

cc Soon after the receipt of your's
cc of the 20th, I received my Papers alfo, which I
" have reviewed and made fome Additions to.

"As

'■' He was Minifter of Harbledovvn in Kent, and one of the moft
furious of thofe 'rimes. See Wood's Athen. Oxon. Vol. I. p. 863.
and Wharton's Note in ABp. Laud's Trial and Troubles, p. 34.4..

h Sec Calamy's Reflections upon Mr. Lewis in his Preface to the
Abridgment cl Baxter's Life, p. 10, 11.

' Sec his Remarks upon Dr. Bennet's Eflay on the XXXIX ArtiU
cTes, in App. to his Continuation, Vol. IV. 1727- p- 97>

[ 77 1

" As to Mr. Baker's Notes concerning a Mi-
: flake of the ABp's, p. 599, of his State, &c. I
1 fancy I have corrected it in my Papers.

tc His Grace has quoted in his Margin, an An-
' fvver for the Time, &c. for Words which are in
' the Examination, for the Time, &c. The Au-
' thor of which is fnppofed to be ABp. Parker,
c who certainly does fay, that the 33d Article of
c 1552, ' are the Words,' which the whole Sy-
c nod were well pleafed withal, and thereunto all
c the Clergy's Hands were fet ; and in the Mar-
' gin is added, a Hand pointing to the Words,

whofoever through his private Judgment, &c.J
c and underneath, ' the Articles agreed in the laft

Synod.' That thefe Expreffions cannot refer to
' the Synod of 1562, feems plain from what
c goes before, where this Article is called, * The

Determination of the Church of England,

agreed upon in King Edwardes Dayes.'

<c My Papers in Vindication of myfelf from the

' ill Ufage of Dr. Calamy, I ftill think I mould

' not publifh, for the Reafons given p. 4, 5, of

c the Examination of Dr. Chandler's Hiftorv.

" I have (ten an Advertifement of ' A full

View of the Tranfactions in the Reign of Q^

Elizabeth, in two Volumes, by Dr. Forbes.'
' Pray who is Dr. Forbes? and what Character

c does the View bear?

" When you fee Mr. Baker, pray prefent my

" hum-

[ 78 ]

" humble Service to him, and fhew him the In-
" fcription underneath. It is on a Tombftone
<£ in the Chapel of Dover Caftle, perhaps he may
" know who Creone was.

C- ET- PETRVS- DE- CREONE.
IE- PRO- ANIMA- EIVS-

<c jMr. Baker fays he can fhew by unexception-
cc able Authority, that the Catechifm, &c. was
Cl written by Bp. Poynet, I wifh he would be fo
tc good as to fend me that Authority.

" ABp. Parker calls the Chimere, Crimere.
cc Perhaps Mr. Baker can tell the original Defign
" of it."

Mr. Baker's Anfwers to the foregoing Queries,
as entered upon the Backfide of the Letter, were;

<c The famous John Bale, who was fometime
Chaplain to Bp. Poinet, and lived in the Family,
in his Scriptorum Britanniae Centuria oclava.
N. XCI.I. p. 694. has thefe Words, Joannes Po-
nctus memorise commendavit (inter caetera) Ca-
techifmum Latinum ad Regem, Lib. I. Cum bre-
vis Explicatio Catechifmi, &c. which arc the firft
Words of the Catechifm, and Bale's ufual Way
of defcribing Books and Authors.

The full View of the Transactions of Q^Eliz.
Reign, I have not yet fc^n. Dr. Forbes isLL.D.

and

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and his Book well recommended by the Faculty
at Edinburgh1.

I know nothing of Peter de Creone."

In the Year 1736, Dr. Grey received the fol-
lowing Letter from Mr. Baker.

" Dear Sir,

" I blefs God I am pretty well re-
cc covered of my troublefome Indifpofition, though
" not without Apprehenfions of a Relapfe.

<c I wifli you and your Lady much better
<c Health than I can hope to enjoy at this Age,
<c and therefore I muft always think them happy
" that can die in good Time.

" The laft Sunday in the Veftry of St. Marie's,
c' the Vicechancellor (Dr. Adams, Mailer of Sid-
<c ney College) propofed a Degree for the Gentle-
<c man you have lb often fpoke of (Dr. Lether-
" land) but it did not then pafs the Heads. No-
<c thing was faid of Dr. Bedford".

" I am

■ William, Son of Mr. Hilkiah Bedford abovementioned, had a
Mandate Degree of M. D. conferred upon Jiim in 1737. He was a

rhyfician

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<c I am glad you wrote to the Vicechancellor,
" whatever he fends to me I fhall take 'care of."

Dr. Grey received the following Letter from
Mr. Weft in 1738.

" Rev. Sir,

t£ My firft Duty is, to return you
" my moft hearty Thanks for the many Favours
" I received at Cambridge, for which I fhall ever
<c retain the moft grateful Senfe.

" The Proclamation printed by Authority, iff
" literally the fame with yours, that you have
" obliged the World with.

" My Lord Oxford defired to return his Com^
" pliments and Thanks, and to afTure you of his
" Efteem.

" I have looked into my Edition of Taverner's
" Bible, which I find is printed in 1539, the
" fame Year Mr. Baker's Copy was, of which I
tc beg the Favour of you to acquaint him.

<c I thought myfclf not entitled to trefpafs fo
" much on his Time, which is always ufefuliy
<c employed, to trouble him about a Miftake of
" my own, which was owing to the Copy I have,
<c being fo fair and perfect, that I concluded it to
" be a later Imprefiion.

"If

PhyGcian well efteemed in London ; and I apprehend one of the
Phyficians to it. Thomas's Hofpital.

t Si ]

fc If the worthy Vicechancellor" is going? on
c< with his Intention of continuing Gociwyn de
c< Prsefulibus ; I am deiircd by Lord Oxford to
" allure him, that he may command out of his
<c Library the MS. Additions made by Mr. Cam-
i( den, Anthony Wood, and Bp. Wren.

fC Mv Refoects attend him. I know not

(C how to excufe myfelf for giving you this Fa-
<c tigue ; and mu ft throw it all on your great
<c Humanity to forgive, and to permit me to be
" with great Truth,
" Rev. and honoured Sir,

" Your moft obliged and moft obedient Servant,

cc James Weft.
Lincoln's Inn, Apr. 19, 1738.

In a Letter of Mr. Baker to Dr. Grey, (in the
Year 1738 or 9) he fpeaks of Mr. Peck's Books
in the following Terms.

Dear Sir,

Your MefTenger calling upon me in
the dark, and my Eyes not well bearing a Can-
dle, I doubt I mail fend you a fhort and imper-
fect Aniwer.

I am <rlad vou have heard from Mr. Peck : you
are very kind in fubicribing for his Books ; That

is

r Dr. William Richrrdfon, Mailer of Emanuel College, who pub-
lished a pompous Edition cf that Work in folio in 1743-

F

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is as much as I can do, or he will expect from
me, who am a perfect Reclufe, and fee nobody
but at Chanel. He feems to have met with Food
Encouragement, the Speaker having given him
leave to dedicate one of his Books to him°, and
Mr. Benfon for the other'. Thefe arc Men of
Intereft, and will I hope enable him to go
through with his Books.

1 ihould have been glad to have io^n you at
Cambridge, but we muft all give Way to
Bufinefs, fo I wifh yon Succefs in your Tithes.

And the laft Letter he ever received from him
was dated from Cambridge, Feb. 9, 1739, thank-
ing him for a kind Prefent of Mountain Wine,
which he had juft received by the Carrier from
London, with a Letter from the Merchant, figni-
fying from whom it came. " Had he faid no-
" thing, I fhould have prefumed it to have come
<c from my beft Friend, of whole overflowing
" Kindnefs, I have had fuch Experience already,
11 without any other Return than dry and barren
£' Thanks. That Return I muft make at prefent,
u and with my humble Service to your Lady,
tl wiming her and you Health in this fevere and
" trying Weather, I am, &c."

Mr.

0 New Memoirs of the Life and Poetical Works of Mr. John
Milron, dedicated to the right honourable Arthur Onflow £fq,
Speaker of the Houfc of Commons in 4 to, 174.0.

p Memoirs of the Life and Actions of Oliver Cromwell, dedica-
ted to Mr, Auditor Benfon, 4W, 1740.

t 33 ]

Mr. Baker now began to find himfelf declin-
ing apace, and therefore thought it advifeable to
make his Will on 15th of October 1739, where-
in he obligingly remembered many of his Friends,
befides his valuable Legacies to the Lord Oxford,
his College, and the Univerfity of Cambridge.
On which Account, as well as for the religious
and pious Strain in which it is drawn up, it de-
ferves a Place in the Appendix.

He did not long furvive this, but died on 2d
July, 1740, of a Paralytic Stroke, much lament-
ed by his Friends ; as will appear, from the few
following: Extracts of Letters on that Occafion
to Dr. Grey.

Camb. Jan. 29, 1740.
Dear Sir,

I have juft Time to acquaint you, that
our worthy Friend Mr. Baker, was yefterday feized
with a Paralytic Diforder, which has been in-
creating ever fince, and it is the Opinion of every
Body, that he cannot be of long Continuance.
I thought this Advertifement due to you, as you
will be fo great a Sharer in the common Con-
cern. I am Dear Sir,

Your mod obedient and mod obliged

humble Servant,
James Tunftal7.

Mr,

r- Tie was Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Orator of ;h;
timerfity. and after wards Chaplain to the AI>p, of Canterbury,

F 2

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Mr. Barton, Mr. Baker's Coufm, is here
with his Nephew Mr. Baker, who was admit-
ted Fellow Commoner the Day before this Dif-
affer happened.

And the late very worthy Dr. William War-
ren, Prefident of Trinity Hall, thus exprefTes
himfelf in a Letter like wife to Dr. Grey on that
Occafion.

Dear Sir,

" I preiume you have already heard
of Sir John Hatton's Death'; but perhaps it
may be News to you to be told, that on Wed-
nesday laft, the Reverend, learned, pious, con-
iciencious, and judicious Antiquary, Thomas Ba-
ker, B. D, departed this Life in his own Cham-
ber. He was found lying on the Floor, in a
Paralytica! Diforder, two or three Days before
he died."

Trin. Hall, July 4, 1740.

Dr. Sam. Knight, Archdeacon of Berkfhire,
and Prebendary of Ely, thus fpeaks of him in a
Letter to the fame of Sep 4, 1741.

cc I much lament (as I am Hire you do) the
Lofs of our worthy Friend Mr. Baker. This
alone will render Cambridge lefs agreeable to you."

He bequeathed by Will to his Friend Dr. Grey, his

Pictures

hrt, -r V-- Gta " Qamou '<

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Pictures and Prints unbequeathed, which upon
the Doctor's enquiring after, gave Occafion to
the following Letter from Dr. Williams.

Dear Sir,

cc You receive with this, the Cata-
logue which you defiredj I believe one of the
Anonymous is Dr. Corbett, which is bequeathed
to Dr. Dickens for his College. There are feve-
veral loofe unframed Prints, and two Books of
Prints. Mr. Richd. Burton defires your Opinion,
whether you think thefe fall within the Con-
flruction of that Claufe, that relates to you, be-
ing determined to execute his Uncle's Will, to
the bed of his Knowledge and Information."
Dr. Grey had likewife written to Mr. Burton, a
Letter of confolatory Compliments upon this
Occafion, to which he received the fubfequent
Anfwer.

Rev. Sir,

" Your Letter of Condolence upon
the Death of my Uncle is extremely kind, in
whom I have not only loft a moft obliging
Friend and near Relation, but muft bear a Share
alfo of the Lofs fuftained by the Publick.

Should any fuch Papers as you enquire after,
come to my Hands, they (hall certainly be com-
municated to you : but I am inclined to think,

f 3 that

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that moft of Value are difpofed of with his Ma-
nufcript Collections, which feem to be fluffed
with loofe Papers and Letters. Of thefe XXIII
Volumes Folio are bequeathed to Lord Oxford,
XV Folios and III Quarto Volumes to the Uni-
verfity Library5, to the College Library, all
fuch Books, printed or Manufcript, as he had,
and were wanting there. From whence the Col-
lege ieems to claim every Book in my Uncle's
Study, cf which they have not the fame Edition,
which in my Opinion is extending the Words a
little too far : but I never heard that they claim-
ed any Prints, in which I apprehend you have
miitaken Dr. Williams meaning : Prints bound
we look upon to be out of the Queftion. The
loofe Prints which I found in a Box, are
what are reckoned doubtful, for the Words,
all Prints undifpofed of, are very exprefs, yet I
think the following Words for the Ornament of
his Houfe, feem to aflign the Ufe; but in this
you fhall be your own Chancellor, nor will I
feek or accept of any Other, and they mall be
all ready to be delivered to your Orders at your
own Time j for they are no fort of Trouble or
Inconvenience to me where they are.. Your kind
Offer of a Copy of my Uncle's Picture, I thank-
fully

* A Grace for the proper Difpofal of which, ar.d fcr the placing
his Name in the Commemoration Book amongft the Benefactors to
the Publick Library, was pafTcd in the Senate on 30 Dec, 174c,
which fhall have a Plate in the .4 :;rcndix.

[ «7 I

fully accepted, and accordingly employed Mr.
Ritz to go to work upon it, but I find fome Dif-
ficulty in coming at the Picture, &c.

Your moil faithful humble Servant,

R. Burton.
Camb. July 19, 1740.

P. S. If you know any Inftances of Legacies
left to the College, and how they have been de-
termined, or have at any Time heard my Uncle
declare his Defire therein, I fliall be very thank
ful for an Account of what you have heard.
My View in difputing any Claufe of the Will,
being only to come at the Knowledge of his In-
tention, and to purfue that wherever I can
find it.

In another of 5th Aug*

— > £C He complains, that the College

Legacy frill kept him clofely confined there,
though he fhould be very glad to be releafed,
having fuch a whimfical crazy Conflitution to
deal with, that it was dangerous to truft himfelf
fo far from Home, when the Winter approaches1."

After Mr. Burton's return Home he had again
Occafion to write to Dr. Grey, concerning the
difpoial and Value of Mr. Baker's Books, which

Mr.

c Sec this Letter more at lar^ein Anecdotes of Eowyer, p.617.

F 4

[ 88 ]

Mr. George Baker had fome Difpohtion to pur-
chafe and preferve in Memory of his Uncle, but
was then obliged to make vile of another Hand,
having no ufe of his own, it having been for a
Month or more bound faft in Mifery and Flan-
nel, and adds, as icon as I am able to write, I
will defire Dr. Williams to look out Spelman's
Gloffary, which you will give me leave to beg a
Place for in your Study, where I fliall be proud
to have it preferved, as a Memorial of our com-
mon Friend, and a mark of that EfTeem with
which 1 am

Your moil faithful and obliged humble Servant,

Rich. Burton.
Elamore Hall, Jan. 17, 1740.

This worthy Gentleman died not long after, as
appears by a Letter of Dr. Williams dated Mar.
4, 1740.

Mr. Burton Mr. Baker's Nephew died at
Durham about ten Days ago, and if you will
return the Catalogue of Mr. Baker's Books by
Mr. II — with your Opinion of the Value, it
may be of Service to ?4r. G. Baker, who I be-
lieve will purchafe them of Mr. Burton's Ad mi-
ni ftrator, for it is feared he died Inteliate" — —
When Dr. Grey was collecting Materials for an

Account

1 ., -. f.,]nr rf the Pocks, that were not put into the College
i,..tj '.V: Hands of Mr. Thurlbourne, Eooklcl^er at
•■ jic rAd there bv Au&iou

[ .«9 ]

Account of Mr. Baker, he got fome Friends to
apniy to Dr. Bedford" for that purpofe, who ac-
cordingly favoured him with the following Par-
ticulars in a Letter of 27 July, 1755. —

•' Dr. Sharp, at the Defire of your Brother at
Newcastle, applied to me for any Particulars
which I might have concerning Mr. Baker. Dr.
Hunter alfo fhewed a Letter from you to the fame
Effect.

I acquainted him with every Body I could
think had any thing, and am a good deal furpri-
zed that Mr. Crow fliould have nothing material,
for he married one of Mr. Burton's Sillers, and
immediately was pofTefled of every thing at Mr.
Burton's Death, he dying inteftate. I will now
give you an Account of Mr. Baker's Death, be-
ing at that Time at Cambridge; and attended
him with Dr. Heberden. " In the Afternoon be-
ing alone in his Chamber, he was (truck with a
flight apoplectick Fit, which abating a little, he
recovered his Senfes, knew all about him7, and
feemed perfectly fatisfied and refigned. When the
Doctors defired him to take fome Medicine they
mould order, he declined it, faying, he would
only take his ufual Suftenance, which his Bed-
maker knew the Time and Quantity of giving $
he was thankful for the affectionate Care his

Friends

* A Phyfician at Durham, a Relation, and formerly of ihc College^
7 His Nephew Burton, Drs, Bedford and ticberden.

[ 9° ]

Friends {hewed towards him, but hoped the
Time of his Difiblution was at hand, and would
by no Means endeavour to retard it. His Difor-
der increafed, and the third Day from the Seiz-
ure he departed7. His accuitomed Regularity, and
abftemious Way of Living, had, one would have
imagined, been a Security from a Diforder of this
Nature, though when perhaps it did come, ren-
dered him the lefs able to flruggle with it. But
it happened at the very Time, his great Nephew
the prefent Mr. Baker, o^ Crook, was juft come
from Eton School to be admitted at St. John's.
Upon which Occafion, befides the great Joy he
exprefied in feeing him, he frequented Company
more than ufual, and had Entertainments in his
own Chambers (what he very rarely practiced on
any Account) fo that this unufual Hurry, de-
stroyed that /Equilibrium of Spirits, his wonted
Tranquility kept up; and like any other violent
Excefs, proved too much for him to bear.

I recollect it always as one of the moft fortu-
nate Incidents of my Life ; that I happened to
be thrown in the Way at this Time, both as I
had an Opportunity of feeing my much honour-
ed and great Friend in his laft Minutes, as al-
fo of having an Occafion of exerting myfelf in

his

y A more particular Account of his Ulnefs and Death oblig-
ingly communicated by Dr, Heberdcn, -will be infencd in the
Appendix.

[ 9' ]

his Service, who when I was a Student, had left
no Act of Friendfhip or Relation undone towards
me. Next, I am extremely glad of this farther
and publick Opportunity of owning the great
Obligations and Honour I had, in being known
to, and in my youth regarded by ib great and
learned a Man, fo kind and an affectionate a Re-
lation. In a fubfequent Letter of 28th Sep-
tember following, he farther acquaints him
that Mr. Crow fays, "he has no Letters, &c.
among Mr. Baker's Papers relating to him at all.
That he had fome he let Mr. Smith, of Burne
Hail fee, but they being as was thought, of no
Account, were defTroyed in Mr. Burton's Houfe,
where they were ufed by the Servants as vvafte
Paper. Two Things Mr. Crow has, one the
Deed to the College concerning the Exhibitions,
of which the College muft have a Counterpart.
The other the Inftrurnent, drawn for creating
our Friend, Chaplain to Lord Crewe; and what
is remarkable in it, 'tis in the Month and Year
of the Revolution, and I fuppofe rejected by him,
for the Day is left blank, and the whole not fub-
icribed by his Lordfhip.

Dr. Grey wrote alio to Mr. Geo. Baker, to
make the like Enquiries, to which he received
the following Anfwer. " Sometime fince I did
myfelf the Pleafure of anfwering your obliging
Letter, and am foiry to find it has not reached

your

[ 92 ]

your Hands. In it I acquainted you that I have
made diligent Search after the Effects and Papers
my Uncle left, but can find none, as I believe
they were all confirmed after Mr. Burton's Death,
by an Accident, when in his Brother Crow's Cufto-
dy, fo that I am afraid, I can give you no Light
whatfoever of his Correfpondence or Life. I am
greatly obliged to you for your kind Intention of
perpetuating the Memory of my Uncle, and am

Yours, &c.
Sep. 1 8, 1755. George Baker.

In relation to a Monument, Mr. B fays

pofitively, that the old Gentleman forbad any
fuch to be erected in his Will. The words of
the Will however are only " as to my Funeral I
am not follicitous; I defire nothing but Christian
Burial," fo that a plain Stone, with a moit and
modefl Infcription at the lead, might have been
laid over him, either by his Relations, or the
College, with the greater!: Propriety, and had his
Executor Mr. Burton, furvived him long, it is
probable from his Character, that a decent Mo-
nument to his Uncle's Memory, which he much
revered, would not have been neglected. The
latter part of Bp. Scougall's Character upon his
Monument, would have exactly fuited that of
Mr. Baker.

> — Omni Eloquio dignus, utpote pie pacificus,
o modeite

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modeite prudens, Eruditse probitatis decus et ex-
emplar: nee morose gravis, nee fuperbe doclus".

And I cannot help adding, that I think its hav-
ing been not hitherto done, fhews a Want of pro-
per refpeel to his Memory; as in a very few Years
the Place of his Interment, (on the North Side
of the Antechapel, near the Monument of
Archdeacon Afheton, on whofe Foundation, he
had been both Scholar and Fellow) may be for-
gotten, although his Name never can, whilft any
of the many Works of Literature, he aflifted in
communicating to the Publick, fhall remain2.

He died on the fecond Day of July, in 174c,
in the 84th Year of his Age, and was attended
by the Society, as ufual, at his Funeral foon after:
when an Oration was made over him by Mr,
Clarke one of the Fellows b; wherein the Lofs of
fo valuable a Perfon to the Republick of Letters,
the Univerfity and College was juflly lamented.

The following Account of him in a printed
Paper drawn up by a Member of the College,

and

z Montekh's Theatre of Mortality, p. So.

a And that it cculd not be his Intentien to forbid any kind of a
Monument, 1 think farther appears, from his having erected one in
the Chancel of the Great Church of Kingtton upon Hull, to the
Memory of his Grandfather Sir George Baker above mentioned, at
no fmall Expence ; whole Remains, defcrving as he was of a better
Fate, laid t!-*-re unregarded above forty Years. Upon this he pla-
ced an Infcription given at length in the Append. See Gents Hilt, cf
Kingilon, p. 25.

h See a full Account of this Ceremony, by Mr. Wm, Cole cf
King's College, in a Letter to .Dr. Grey in the Append,

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and prefixed to the Books given by him to the
Library, may ferve inftead of a Monument.

Biblioth: Coll: Div. Johan. Cant.

Ex dono

Viri Reverendi Thomae Baker, S.T.B.

Qui olim fuerat hujus Collegii Socius,

Poftea vero, ex Senatus Confulto ejectus,

In his iEdibus Hofpes confenuit,

Vitae integritate et fama,

Quam ex Antiquitatis fludio confecutus erat

celeberrimus.

Nothing now remains, but before I conclude
thefe Memoirs, to fpeak fomewhat of the Cha-
racter of the worthy Subject of them, as well as
of the Friends with whom he was immediately
connected in the Univerfity, in the latter part of
his Life,

Dr. Warburton, afterwards Bp. of Gloucefler,
who was not difpofed to flatter any one, thus
fpeaks of him, <c Good old Mr. Baker of St.
*< John's has indeed been very obliging. The
" People of St. John's almoft adore the Man ;
t{ for as there is much in him to efteem, much
<c to pity, and nothing (but his Virtue and
«« Learning) to envy, he has ail the Juflice at
" prefent done him, that few people of Merit
«' have till they are dead".

s Sec W-irbn: tor;iar..ii i'>\ Maty'? r.ew Re ::;-.',. p. 1 44.,

t 95 ]

And Dr. I.Green late Bp. of Lincoln, who lived
many Years with him in the fame College, in a
Letter to the Editor, fays, " that although he had
" no Intercourfe with him, yet he had a general
<c Knowledge of his great Civility, his gentle and
tc affable Behaviour to all, and that mafterly Skill
ct in all matters of Antiquity, for which he was
<c fo much celebrated and confulted.

He was, I am informed, b^ one who knew
him well, of an eafy and polite Addrefs, info-
much that he might have been thought to have
been educated in a Court, had not his Sincerity
been fuch, that it might reaibnably be judged he
never faw one, and of confequence avoided all the
Inconveniences of fuch a kind of Life.

His Converfation was lively and yet grave,
chearful and yet ferious : fomething inftructive
and agreeable was ever dropping from his Lips,
but nothing trifling or cenforious, was ever
known to proceed thence.

As his Studies were employed both in Divinity
and Humanity, and he withal made Chriftianity
his conusant Practice, that which had taken firm
PofTefiion of his heart, occaficually flowed from
his Mouth; and as every one was fatisfied of his
invincible Integrity, the ufeful Hints fu^efted
in common Converfation had a fuitable Influence
upon their Minds : Infomuch that everyone who
had the Pleafure of his Company, mud be high-

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ly fatisfied with the Man, and go out of it, a bet-
ter Man himfelf.

And when he formerly apppeared in the Pul-
pit, the Sentiments of an honeit Heart, recom-
mended by good Senfe, Learning and a graceful
Addrefs, could not fail of having a proper Effect
upon every candid and unprejudiced Hearer.

As to his Literature, the Compilers of the Bi-
ograph. Britan. in their Preface thus (peak of
him, after mentioning Wood's Athenae Oxon.
&c. It was once hoped we mould have (ttn the
like Attention {hewn, towards the learned Men
educated at Cambridge, and had the Work been
executed, as it was at firft defigned, by the late
reverend and excellent Mr. Baker, it muft have
been a mafterly Performance, fince, with all the
Care and Induftry of Wood, he had a fine Ge-
nius, and wrote a moil correct Style 3 equally re-
moved from the itarched Setnefs of a fententious
Writer, and from that luxuriancy that produces
long and languid Periods. But befides all thefe,
he had ftill greater Qualities, fuch as Calmnefs
of Mind, Candour of Heart, and a moft un-
fufpected Integrity. We may juftiy therefore re-
gret the Lofs of fuch a Work, from fuch a Man.
p. xi.

His Life was in every refpect irreproachable,
his Converfation entertaining and improving; his
Manner extremely agreeable ; his Countenance

pleafmg

t 97 ]

pleating and venerable ! and whenever he vouch'
lafed to fpeak upon any Subjecl, within the com-
pais of his Knowledge (and he never went out
of it) it was fure to lofe no Advantage thereby.
With (6 many excellent Qualifications and Ad-
vantages, there were no Shades in his Character,
but what tended rather to add greater Beauty to
the whole. Some who ftudied Politicks more than
Cafuiftry, might pofiibly call the exaclnefs of his
Judgment in queftion, in refpedt to his itrong
Attachments to the Party he had made choice of;
but even that muft raife our Idea of his inflexi-
ble Goodnefs and Integrity.

He lived in Times, when the Notions of Re-
gal Power, were raifed much above thofe of our
prefent Conftitution j and as Politicks were never
his favourite Study, he only confidered the fa-
crednefs of an Oath (as many worthy Men among
his Fellow-fufferers did in like Manner) which in
general it is certain, will admit of no Sort of
Difpenfation, and the deteftable Sin of Perjury,
with all its dreadful Confequences ; and being
bound to that deluded and unfortunate Prince,
K. James, by an Oath, which in his Judgment
appeared to be indifpenfable, when the Revoluti-
on was brought about, in adherence to his for-
mer Principles, which would not permit him to
transfer his Allegiance, he relinquifhed, not only
his Living in the Bifhoprick of Durham, but

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with it all his future Profpecls in Life, which
from his Situation muft have been very great, to
fecure a quiet Confcience in a peaceable Retire-
ment from the World: the ftrongeft Inftance be
could polfibly give of his Sincerity, whatever it
may be thought, of his Prudence and Difcretion.
With this civil Miftake (for which every can-
did Perfon will be difpofed to make all reafonable
Allowance) he was not in the leaft inclined to an-
other of an Ecclefiaflical kindj nor do I believe
he would have been that Way difpofed, had he
continued in full Power with his Diocefan.

The late reverend and learned Mr William
Whifton, in his Memoirs'1 afTures us, that Bp.
Lloyd told him, " that after the Aflaflination Plot
in 1696, the Odium of which was fo great, that
not a Jacobite would have remained in the Nati-
on, had not the extreme Rigour of the following
Act, againft thofe that would not fign an AfToci-
ation, kept up the Spirit of Oppofition to the
Government ever afterward ; which puts me in
mind of the like cafe of two of the Non-jurors
of St. John's College, Cambridge, Mr. Billets
and Mr. Baker, who loved their Religion and'
their Country, as well as any Jurors whatever:
but having- once taken an Oath to K. James,
could not iatisfy their Con fciences in breaking it,
whilit. he lived, for any Confideration whatever.

Thcfe

• r irii fcditio::, p. 32.

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Thefe two were long my particular Acquaintance :
and I well remember, that when K. James died,
they began to deliberate about taking the Oaths
and coming into the Government, till the Abju-
ration Oath, unfortunately in that refpeel, was
to be taken."

And this fame Mr. Whifton (to whofe Tefti-
mony a much greater regard is to be had than to
his Judgment,) when he had once efpoufed an
Opinion, was fo fanguine (although probably at
the fame Time fincere) that he imagined all
Friends who did not contradict him, were in the
fame Way of thinking with himfelf : had
publiflied a fmall Tracl, in Vindication of the
Genuinenefs of the Apoftolical Confutations,
which although containing many excellent Things,
conformable to the Doctrines of the Apoftles and
Opinions of their SuccefTors, yet at the fame
Time are intermixt with many Heretical Interpo-
lations, of much later Date than he affigns
them. And here he has introduced Mr. Billers
and Mr. Baker (in Company indeed with ABp.
Sharpe, Bps. Smallridge, Hoadly, Bradford, &c.)
as being of the fame Opinion, as may be {qci\
more at large in his Memoirs, they having been
amongft the Friends he moft familiarly converfed
with at Cambridge, whilft he was examining the
Primitive Faith and the Apoftolical Conftituti-
ons. Now this Intimacy with thefe two Gentle-
men,

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men, gave Occafion to a Report, that they were
of his Opinion, as appears from a Letter of Mr.
Baker to Mr. Whifton0 of 29th Nov, 1710, to the

following Purport. " Dr. O f makes a Noife

" in the Coffee Houfes, that you had given out,
" that Mr. Billers and I, were of your Opinion,
" which though I don't believe, having always
t( referved myfelf, till I faw the Strength of what
" could be faid in your Books and the Anfwers,
44 yet it makes as much Noife as if it was true.
" I am dear Sir,

" Your mofl obedient humble Servant

" Thomas Baker."

This I think fully clears Mr. Baker's and Mr.
Billers's Characters on this Head, who could not
fee hindered, as he fufpecls many others were, by
worldly Motives, from declaring their Opinions.

He publifhed not many Books himfelf indeed,
yet thofe he did publifh, mew a mafterly Hand,
and are truly valuable. But his principal Labour
was beftowed in doing honour to his Country,
by fearching out its mod valuable Antiquities ;
in which he made fuch a Progrefs and fo much
excelled, that many learned Men, who were well
able to judge of his Abilities, willingly offered
him that tribute of Praife, fo juftly due to his
Merit.

By

c See the Life of Dr. Clarke, p. 22,3.

4 Pnbably Dr. Otway, Fellow of St. John's College.

t 10! ]

By his great Knowledge in Englifh Hiftory
and Antiquities, he was enabled to enlighten the
darkeft and moft obfcure PafTages in both, as
hath appeared from many Parts of the foregoing
Memoirs. But nothing could better manifeft his
great Reading, extenfive Knowledge and accurate
Judgment, than the large and curious Obferva-
tions he made upon thofe Books he vouchfafed to
read with Attention2, and which are by that
Means become truly valuable. And fuch are thofe
more efpecially bequeathed by Will to the Uni-
verfity, and private Friends, all noted with his
own Hand. A Collection, extracted from which,
by a Perfon of Judgment might probably be of
great Ufe to the Publick, and it is hoped will
fome Time or other be accordingly made. Thefe,
with the large MS. Collections he left behind him
(a Catalogue of which, copied in part from Dr.
Middleton's, will be hereunto annexed) fhew what
great Things may be accomplifhed, by a Perfon
of Induftry and Application, during a long Life,
and how every portion of his Time may be em-
ployed in ufeful Enquiries.

I have

s In a Note by T. F. In the Anecdotes of Bowyer, Mr. Baker's
Obfervations in his Books are reprefented as trifling, and that too
from his not having wrote Notes on Taylor's Lyfias, whereas his
Notes were generally of a Biographical Nature, and related either
to the Life of the Author, or fome Account of the Book; and thefe
too, if I am not miftaken much to the Purpofe, as may be feen in
thofe prefixed to Smith's Catal. Libror. MSS. Biblioth. Cotton, in
the Append, inferted there with fome others as a Specimen, to ob-
viate this Objection.

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I have already mentioned his Act of parental
Piety, in creeling a Monument to the Memory of
his Grandfather : nor was he lefs inclinable to
general Acts of Charity and Beneficence : as far
as his {lender Income would enable him. His
particular Regard to his own College, was fully
manifeiled in the following Inftances.

Being appointed one of the Executors of his
eldeft Brother's Will, whereby a large Sum was
bequeathed to charitable Ufes, he prevailed with
the other Tru flees, the Hon. Charles Montague,
of Efington, in the County of Northumberland,
Efquire, and Francis Baker, of Whicham, in the
Bifhoprick of Durham, Gent, to lay out 1310^.
( and it is fuppofed he added fomething of his
own) in the Purchafe of an Eilate, to be veiled
in the College, for the Maintenance of Scholars
therein. The Indenture for thefe Exhibitions
bears Date 5 May, 1710. The Number of them
is fix, and the right of difpofal of them was
referved to himfelf during his Life, and after-
wards veiled in the Mailer and the eight fenior
Fellows of the College.

He likevvife gave an Hundred Pounds to the
College, referving only the ufual Intereii, at the
Time he gave it, to himfelf for Life, with fe-
veral choice Books both MS. and printed, with
Coins and Medals to the Library, befides thofe
he bequeathed by his Will, which were not a few:

and

r 103 ]

and moil of thofe rendered very valuable, for his
Notes and Obfervations upon them.

He was alfo, it is faid, greatly inflrumental in
raifing the Sum of 200^. for procuring Queen
Ann's Bounty, towards the Augmentation of the
Livmg of his native Parifh of Lanchefter, which
he thought flood in need of fuch an Addition.

Nor was his Charity in other Refpecls lefs re-
markable ; he was of fo benevolent a Difpofition,
that he judged favourably of every one, till
he found fufricient Reafon for altering his Opin-
ion. And fo far was he from treating any Man
with Contempt and Infolence, or injuring any-
one's Reputation, that he chofe willingly to allow
him a greater degree of Efteem, than he could
fairly claim, rather than deny him any Part of
the Refpe6l that was really his due.

And though, as we obferved before, the Lofs of
his Fellowfhip gave him real Concern, and his
Circumflances, before but ilrait, were thereby-
much reduced, yet he flili retained a chearful
Difpofition, and the Principles of Chriflianity
were fo thoroughly implanted in his Mind, that
the Lofs of no earthly Thing, could rob him of
that Contentment and Confolation, a quiet Con-
fcience affords. He was always uniformly difpofed
to conform to the Allotments of Providence,
whether profperous, as at the beginning of Life,
or adverfe, as towards the latter end, and not

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more defuous of improving the one, to the Ho-
nour of the Donor, than of patiently acquiefcing
under the other, to teftify his Submiffion.

And fuch was his Attachment to Religion,
and its feveral Offices (at which he regularly
attended whilft able) that I doubt not he made
it his conftant Care, and the chief Buiinefs
of his Life, to prepare for Death ; which, had
he not been feized with a Diforder, that depriv-
ed him in fome Meafure of his Senfes, would
have -appeared, in a far difFerent Light to him
than to the generality of Mankind ; and though
Nature might have been difpofed to recoil, yet
would he, as indeed he did, without the leaft
Alarm fubmit, with the greater!: Calmnefs and
Compofure.

A man thus humane, courteous and benefi-
cent : ever difpofed to live in Harmony and
Unanimity with others, cannot well be fuppofed
to have had many Enemies, fince it mult have
been difficult for them to have found any Occa-
fion of Quarrel, and therefore he was the moft
likely Man living to enjoy Peace and Quiet, whilfl
others were embroiled -, yet when others broke
their Words with, or attempted to deceive him,
he could not help (hewing fome degree of Refent-
ment. So remarkably punclual was he to his
Word and Promife, that he was not a little hurt
at the Want ef it in others. His Hours of

Repofe

[ J°5 1

Repofe and Refrefhment were fo regular, and his
Attachment to his Studies fuch (all the Refidue
of his Time being fo employed ) that any Interrupti-
ons therein were very diipleafing. No Man paid a
greater regard to real Merit, whenever he became
acquainted with it, but he was not given to flat-
ter thofe whofe Pride taught them to form high
Conceits of their fuperiour Abilities, and fo were
difpofed to look upon that as a Neglect, which
was never intended as fuch ; to whom an Omiffion
in a Punctilio of Refpecl, is a high Provocation,
and a Crime fcarcely to be forgiven. Perfons of
this Character he induftrioufly avoided, and there-
fore it is not to be wondered at, they fhould be
diflatisfied with himh.

In fhort, fuch were Mr. Baker's Talents and
his model! Opinion of himfelf, that I cannot bet-
ter conclude his Character, than in the Words of
Mr. Nelfon upon Bp. Bull, none being more
fuitable and expreflive of it.

<£ Amidil

h Mr. Baker was generally allowed to be one of the moil exaQ:
Copiers of original Papers, and yet I find Mr. Bennet, the late Editor
of Mr. Afcham's Englifh Works, after the Obligations he was un-
der to him, for preferving fome of his Letters to private Friends,
which he had tranferibed into his 1 6th Vol. p. 275, is pleafed to ob-
ierve in a Note at the bottom of p. 369, that thefe Letters are un-
ikilfully tranferibed, fo that proper " Names are not always recover-
able." Whereas their being copied from the Original according to
the old Way of fpelling, is what I prefume has offended our modern
Editor, although therein confift their greateft Merit. His Note upon
Touch of Crell in the following Page feems to be very trifling, fince
the Writer's meaning feems to be only, that the Bird could fwallow
a Penny Loaf without any trouble, or making of his Creft. See
beginning of Vol. I.

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<l Amidil all thofe extraordinary Talents,
with which God had blefTed him, it never ap-
peared that he ever valued himfelf, or defpifed
others. For though his natural Endowments
were of no ordinary Size, and were wonderfully
improved by Study and Application, his great
Learning was tempered with that modeft and
humble Opinion of it, that it thereby fhined with
greater Luftre'."

His Picture was purchafed out of Lord Ox-
ford's Collection, by Dr. Ravvlinfon, and placed
by him in the Picture Gallery at Oxford. Charles
Bridges, pinxit memoriter, and a Mezzotinto
Print was done from it by J. Simon. And Mr.
Virtue on going to Cambridge, had been privately
engaged to draw by ftealth, the Portrait of old
Mr. Tho. Baker, of St. John's then an eminent
Antiquary, earlier in his Life the modeft Author
of that ingenious and polifhed little piece, Reflec-
tions on Learning1".

I fhall now proceed to fay fomething of his
Friends and Acquaintance in the Univerfity, more
particularly of thofe of the latter Part of his Life,
being not fo well acquainted with thofe in the
former. And at the Head of thefe may juftly be
placed the Earl of Oxford, fo famed for his moft

excellent

1 Life of F!p. Bull, p. 4.80.

i: \V,-;lpn]t\ [ ifc of Virtue, p. 259. His Arms, on a Letter to
Mi. Wilhr.ma were, on a Snkirc engrailed 5 Efcallops, no Colours

cwprciild.

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excellent Collection of Books and MSS, then de-
pofited at Wimple in this Neighbourhood, the
ufual Place of his Reiidence; from whence he
frequently vifited his Friends at Cambrid, , and
in particular Mr. Baker, for whom he always tes-
tified the higheft Regard j andjindeed often mewed
it, not only by frequent Vifits, and mod obliging
Correfpondence, but by generous prefents of
Wine, &c. (for I am told he would receive no
others) In Return for which Favours, Mr. Baker
bequeathed to him the larger Sharer of his valu-
able MSS, after having given him all the Affift-
ance he was able, in making that extraordinary
Collection. A fubftantial proof of his Gratitude,
which would have been exceeded by no one, had
his Circumftances correfponded with his liberal
Difpofition. This Nobleman's Attachment to
Literature, the indefatigable Pains he took, and
the large Sums he expended in making the above
Collection, are too well known, to Hand in need
of any farther Notice, than that of Mich. Mat-
taire, in the Dedication of the Catalogue of the
printed Books to Lord Carteret, in the following
Words. " Comes Ille Oxonienfis, infignis apud
probos omnes et eruditos domi forifque, undecun-
quecorradi poffint, paffimperquifitas, magnisfum-
ptibus, Induftria fingulari, ftudioque indefeflb, in
banc congeflit." And in that large one of MSS,
now happily depofited in the Britifii Mufeum,

where

[ io8 ]

where all Men of Literature, may not only have free
Accefs to, but the moft comfortable Accommo-
dations for their Perufal and Application. As to
other Parts of this Lord's Character, Family
Connections, &c. they are to be met with in the
Peerage, and elfwhere, to which I mall rather
choofe to refer the Reader, than enlarge upon them
here.

As Mr. Baker had for many Years before his
Death, been almoft a Reclufe, and feldom went
farther than the College Walks, unlefs to a Coffee
Houfe in an Evening, after Chapel, where he
commonly fpent an Hour with great Chearful-
nefs, in converting with a felect Number of his
Friends and Acquaintance, chiefly upon literary
Subjects ; I fhall here take the Liberty of giving
a fhort Account of fome of them.

Dr. Francis Dickens, Fellow of Trinity Hall,
was one of thefe, who took the Degree of LL.B.
in 1704, and had that of A.M. conferd upon
him by Mandate in 17 10, in order to enable him
to take the Proctorfliip, upon a Devolution to
that College by the Death of Mr. Fran. Turner,
A.M. Fellow of King's College, for the Re-
mainder of that Year1, which Office was in like
Manner confer'd upon him again, on the Death

of

1 This Office comes regularly to this College, only once in fifty
Years, (I fuppofe by Reafcn of their being all Civilians, except two
Fellows) unlefs in Cafes of Death, when it always devolves to that
Houfe.

[ io9 ]

of Mr. John Bagnell, A.M. of Jefus College, ill
the following. This Office, according to his ufual
Humanity, he is faid to have executed with great
Lenity and Tendernefs, and therein to have copi-
ed Bp. Sanderfon's Conduct, when Fellow of
Lincoln College, in Oxford, in 1615, as related
in his Life by Walton.

He proceeded LL.D. in 17 14, and upon the
Death of Dr. Ayloffe, was foon after appointed
Regius Profeffor of Civil Law, in Oppofition to
Dr. Audley, in Favour of whom a Petition had
been fent up to the Queen, ligned by the Vice-
chancellor and many of the Headsm, but the In-
tereft of his Brother, Mr. Dickens, Serjeant Sur-
geon to the Queen, prevailed.

He was a Perfon, not only well efteemed for
his Learning in general, and extraordinary At-
tainments in his Profeffion, but beloved by all
who knew him, for his fweetnefs of Difpofition,
and uncommon Degree of Humanity. No Pro-
feffor, I may venture to fay, from the Foundation,
ever made a greater Figure in the Chair, and few
I believe have equalled him. His Command in
the pureft Latin Tongue, placed him upon a Le-
vel in that Refpecl:, with two of our moft cele-
brated Profeffors of Divinity, Dr. Beaumont and
Dr. James, the one Matter of Peterhoufe, and
the other of Queen's College; and was not fup-

poied

m Mar. 21, 171-1

[ "o ]

pofed to fall greatly fhort of them, in Knowledge
of the Queftions and Management of the Difpu-
tations. And his Determinations upon forne of
the Queftions that came before him, were fo ex-
cellent, that they were much attended to and ad-
mired i and an eminent Divine, has been heard
to declare more than once, there were fome Paf-
fages in St. Paul's Epiftles, he could not compre-
hend, till he heard them explained by him, in the
mod fatisfactory Manner, from the Roman Laws.
Yet fuch were his great Modefty and Humility,
that he ordered them all to be burnt before his
Death, to the unfpeakable Lofs of fuch, as pur-
pofe to make the Civil Law, their principal Study.
No one, I will venture to afTert, was better quali-
fied for the Inftrudtion of Youth, as having
joyned to his natural Sweetnefs of Temper, and
great Knowledge in Literature, a happy Manner
of communicating it. And wherein he fpared nei-
ther Pains nor Labour, in inftrucling both his
own Pupils, and thofe who attended his Courfe
of Lectures ; fo that where Capacity, or Attention
were not wanting, they were enabled to keep
Exercife under him to advantage, and when they
did fo, were fure of meeting with his publick Ap-
probation. In Confirmation of which, a Gentle-
man who attended a young Baronet abroad, to the
Law Lectures of that celebrated ProfefTor, Bar-
beyrac, at Laufanne, has been heard confidently

to

[ I" ]

to affert, that Dr. Dickens had fuch a happy
Way of expreffing hirnfelf, and explaining every
Thing in the Civil Law, that his Pupils might
learn more from his Lectures in a Week, than
from Barbeyrac's in a Month.

To this I may add, his uncommon Degree of
Generofity, well known to all his Friends and
Acquaintance, and particularly experienced by
fuch as kept Exercife under him, and whofe Cir-
cumftancesgave them any Claim to it. By fuch Acls
of Bounty, he greatly leflened his annual Income j
which from his Paternal Eftate, Profefforfliip,
Fellowfhip and Pupils was very confiderable. Nay
had he lived to have enjoyed a large Eftate in
Suffolk, left him by a remote Relation, after the
Deceafe of his Widow, 'tis probable, a good Part
of it would have been employed in Acls of Be-
nevolence, and fuch like good Works. But his
Death which happened in iy- — prevented any
fuch Application, and gave an Opportunity to
Ambrofe Dickens, Efq. his worthy Nephew, of
Wollafton, in Northamptonfhire, to ftand in his
Room.

Dr. William Baker, fenior Fellow and Dean of
St. John's College, was another of his Friends,
whom he ufed to meet at the fame Place. A Man
of great Learning and Probity, but reckoned ri-
gorous in the Execution of his Office. As it is
well known however, that he had both the Inter-
eft

eft of the College, and of the Youth at heart, Co
he often received Thanks, from fuch as he had
animadverted upon in the mod fevere Manner,
when they confidered the real Service he had
done them, by his well intended and timely
Admonitions.

Dr. Conyers Middleton", Principal Librarian
of the Univerfity of Cambridge, was another of
the fame Party. A Perfon well known to the
learned World, as an accomplifhed Gentleman
and a Polite Scholar. His Life of Cicero, Book
of Genuine Antiquities, and many other Pieces,
were received by the Publick with the higher!
Applaufe; and had he confidered the Imperfecti-
ons of human Learning (without the Aid and
Afliftance of divine Revelation) a little more, no
one would have appeared to greater advantage,
amongft Men of Letters. He gave great Offence,
it is certain, by fome of his Writings, both to the
Publick, and to fome of his particular Friends,
which brought upon him many Reflections, and
put a flop to his Preferment : but whatever his
real Sentiments of the Chriftian Religion were, it
muft in Juftice to him be owned, that he was ne-
ver heard to fay any Thing, that in the leafb ten-
ded to its Impeachment or Difcredit. His Con-
verfation always appeared to be truly Chriftian,

and

n Sec his Life prefixed to his Works in 4 Vols. 4to. and in Bio-
graph. Britan. p. 3092. And Anecdotes of Bowyer, p. 125.

[ "3 ]

and no Man led a more exemplary Life, nor in
his Practice paid a greater Regard to religious
Ordinances and Inftitutions. Such however is
the Power of Prejudice, that Mr. Baker himfelf,
after his many open Declarations concerning Re-
velation0, was thought by fome, to have been in-
feezed by the Do6lor with the Principles of Infi-
delity, from frequently converfing with him in
this public Way, and in Company with many
other learned Perfons of his Acquaintance5". Yea
a City Divine, of fome eminence for Literature,
was fo prejudiced againft the Doctor, as to ftyle
him in Contempt, the Man of one Syllogifm, as
if incapable of carrying an Argument above that
length ; when every one who knew him, muft be
fully convinced, that no one was more capable of
defending the right Side of a Queflion than him-
felf: and indeed his Writings themfelves, are an
ample Attestation of this Truth.

Philip Williams, D.D. and fenior Fellow of St,
John's College, another of Mr. Baker's Acquaint-
ance, was an eminent Tutor, publick Orator of
the Univerfity, and a good Divine.

He kept the Divinity Act, at the publick Com-
mencement in 1730, and though oppofed by fome

of

0 In his Chapter on Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, and elfewhere.

p A Clergyman of the Town, once afked Dr. Grey if he was not
an Infidel, from having heard that he fpent moft of his Evenings at
the Doflor's Houfc, whereas perhaps he fcarce ever was there, but
ufuallv m»t him in publick Company at the Coffee Houfe.

II

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of the mod learned Men in the Univerfity, ac-
quitted himfeif with great Credit and Applaufe.
He likewife diftinguiihed himfeif as an Orator,
although the Bufinefs of a good one is extremely
difficult, and the Requifites to make one, attain-
able by few. And his Addrefs in the Pulpit was
fuch, as gave great Advantage to his Sermons,
and caufed him to be an admired Preacher.

James Tundal, D.D. Fellow of the College,
likewife, was a Perfon highly edeemed, not only
for his good Learning, but for the Sweetnefs of
his Difpofition. As a Pupil Monger, no one
took more Pains for the Improvement of fuch as
were placed under his Care ; and his Succefs was,
I am told, anfwerable to his warmed Willies. As
fenior Dean of the College, the mildnefs of his
Reproofs, wrought more upon the Tempers of
feveral Perfons of ingenuous Minds, than the
fharpeft Cenfures, or the fevered Difcipline
would have been able to effect.

He appeared with Credit both as a Divine, and
publick Orator, but as a Difputant few were his
Equals. He acquired fuch Applaufe by his Act
for his Doctor's Degree, that in my Remem-
brance no one deferved more, Dr. Rutherforth,
the late learned ProfefTor of Divinity excepted,
whofe Powers were really aftonifhing, and whofe
Act probably equalled that of Dr. Clarke record-
ed in his Lite. He wrote a Latin Treatife againd

Dr

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Dr. Middleton concerning Cicero's Epiftles to At*
ticus, &c. with other Publications, which may be
kcny with a farther Account of him, in Nichols's
Anecdotes of Bowyer, p. 351. He was made
Chaplain to ABp. Potter, from whom he received
fome considerable Preferments, but lived not long
to enjoy them.

Though thefe were Mr. Baker's principal Ac-
quaintance, yet were there many others in the
Univerfity, for whom he had the higheft Regard.
Amongft thefe were the reverend and learned Dr.
Newcome, late Mafter of the College, and his
excellent Lady : who befides her unufual Attain-
ments, in fome ufeful Branches of Science, not
attended with the leaf! Vanity or Affectation, was
pofleffed of every Accomplishment belonging to
her Sex. Of the Favours received from thefe
worthy Perfons, he makes honourable Mention
in his Will, and of whom more may be fee 11 in
the Anecdotes of Bowyer, p. 17, and elfwhere.

To thefe I may add Mr. Robert Leke, B.D.
Fellow of the fame College, and afterwards
Rector of Great-Snoring, in Norfolk; who was
generally efteemed a Man of Learning, and a
good Preacher. And the late Mr. Henry Peyton,
Fellow Commoner ; whofe good Nature and ami-
able Difpohtion juftly endeared him to all his
Acquaintance. Like wife the late worthy Dr.
William Warren, Prefident of Trinity Hall, Dr.

h 2 Henry

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Henry Monfon, Fellow of the fame, and Regius
Profeffor of Law, with the amiable Sir James
Bnrrough, A.M. Succeflbr to Bp. Gooch, in the
Mafterfhip of Caius College j whofe focial Difpo-
fition, united to a gentlemanlike and polite Be-
haviour, gained him an univerfal Efteem.

But he had a greater Regard for no Man, nor
did any one better deferve it, than the learned
William Heberden, M.D. of the fame College,
who attended him in his laft Illnefs, and upon
whofe amiable Character I fhould gladly have en-
larged) had not the ftricteft Injunctions been
given to the Contrary. Some creditable Particu-
lars however concerning him, are to be met with
in the Anecdotes of Bowyer, at p. 26, 488, 641.
The laft, though not the leaft of his Friends,
whom I (hall here take Notice of, was Dr. Zach-
ary Grey, the Collector of the Materials of this
Life ; of whom and his Writings an Account is
given in Nichols's Anecdotes of Bowyer, p. 354,
where he is faid to have been of Yorkfhire, ad-
mitted Penfioner of Jefus College, in Cambridge,
in 1704, and from thence removed to Trinity
Hall, in 1706. He was Rector of Houghton
Conqueft, in Bed ford (hire, where, or at the neigh-
bouring Town of Ampthill, he uiually fpent the
Summer, and refided at Cambridge in the Win-
ter, where he was Vicar of the Parifhes of St.
Peter and St. Giles, He was, as is there truly af

ferted

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ferted, of a mod amiable, and communicative
Difpofition, and never better pleafed than when
performing Acts of Friendfhip and Benevolence,
He had fpent a great deal of Time in reading a
large Collection of Books, and publifhed many
more Tracts in Relation to Englilh Hiftory, &c.
than are enumerated by Mr. Nichols : who in-
troduces the Bifhops Gibfon and Sherlock, as
fpeaking highly in Commendation of him, for
his Examination of Neal's Hiftory of the Puri-
tans. But notwithflanding his great Application
to his Studies, he always appeared lively and
chearful, and no Man delighted more in the Com-
pany of his Friends, or entertained them in a
more hofpitable and agreeable Manner. In
fhort, he feemed to enjoy, all that Eale and Hap-
pinefs, ufually arifmg from a good Heart, and a
contented Mind. Addenda.

In the Bodleian Catalogue, at p. 347, is a
Book entitled, " Querimonia Johan. Somerfet,
de Ingratitudine Univerfitat. Cantab, et fpeciali-
ter contra fupremos Socios Coll. Regis, auftore
Guil. Worcefter five Bottoner cum Obfervationi-
bus Tho. Bakeri de eodem, Oxon. 8vo. 1727."
This was publifhed by his Friend Tho. Hearne,
who thus acknowledges his AiTiftance, Obferva-
tiones de Joanne Somerfet, ex Epiftolis quinque
ad Editorem datis, in quibus Obfervationibus et
notas quafdam luculentas fimul et eximias habes,

H 3 et

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et de viro magno et infelici Edmundo Caftelloq>
quas meo rogatu mifit amiciffimus Bakerusr.

P. 18. Mr. Locke's EfTay on Human Under-
ftanding was firfr publiflied in 1 689, and although
Mr. Baker's Reflections upon Learning, did not
come forth till ten Years after: yet the former,
however valuable in itfelf, and however highly
efteemed fmce, was at that Time in no Degree
of Credit, and we may prefume little read ; yea
at a Meeting of the Heads of Houfes at Oxford,
fo late as 1703, it was propofed to cenfure and
difcourage the reading of it*. 'Tis not much to
be wondered at therefore, Mr. Baker in his Chap-
ter of Logic fhould pafs it by without Notice.

The Author of his Life in the new Biograph.
Britan. feems not only to countenance Dr. Jor-
tin's Reflections upon Mr. Baker, but much dif-
pofed to lower him in the Opinion of the World,
and even taxes him with fpeaking contemptuoufly
and ignorantly of the Copernican Syftem, in his
Chapter of Afrronomy: without attending to the
great Improvements made in Mathematics, Na-
tural Philofophy, and in that very Science, by

the

r! This lesrned Man was concerned with Bp. Walton, in the
publication of the Polyglot Bible, and Lexicon Heptaglotton. He
had been Fellow of King's College, and became Redlor of Higham
Ciobion in Bedfordshire, where he died in 1674, and was buried in
the Church.

' Append. Tho. de Elmharn Vita et Gefta Henrici, V. 1727.

• See Locke's Works, Vol. IV, ^to. 1777. A Letter to Collins
p. 61 S.

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the Difcoveries of Sir Ifaac Newton and others,
fince that Period.

P. 33. Bp. Burnet fays in the Preface, to the
III Vol. of the Hiftory of the Reformation, " In
feveral Particulars I do not perfectly agree with
thefe Corrections, but I fet them down as they
were fent to me, without any Remarks on them,
and I give my hearty Thanks in the fulled
Manner I can, to him who was firft at the Pains
to make this Collection, and then had the Good-
nefs to communicate it to me, in fo obliging a
Manner : for he gave me a much greater Power
over thefe Papers than I have thought fit to
alfume:" And that Mr. Baker was the Perfon al-
luded to is certain from his own Entry in this
Volume, " Ex dono doctiflimi Authoris ac ce«
leberrimi Prsefulis Gilberti Epifcopi Sarisburi-
enfis, adding I mall always have an Honour for
the Author's Memory, who entered all the Cor-
rections I had made, at the end of this Volume."
If any more are found, they were not fent, for
he fupprelled nothing. An Inftance much to the
Credit of both, who were Perfon s of fuch differ-
ent Principles.

Dr. Hatcher's is no more than a Catalogue of
Perfons educated in King's College, with fome
fhort Notes upon them, and does not extend to
the Univerfity, as intimated in the Britifh Topo-

h 4 graphy

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graphy ifl Ed. p. 102. in Note D. The Account
there given of Baker's MS. Collections is very fu-
peifkial, and yet much too long and tedious for
a Note, in a Work of that kind.

I never met with the leafl Hint of Mr. Prior's
giving him the Profits of his Fellowfhip, but in
the Biograph. Britan. p. 520, and therefore can-
not imagine Dr. Goddard could be well informed
in that Matter : or that there was more Truth in
it, than in that of Ld. Oxford's Annuity above
noticed, p. 71.

P. 56. Wm. Wake, ABp. of Cant.

ob. 24 Jan. 1736, iEtat 79.
This Infcription is upon his Ring, which I
preferve in Memory of him. T. B.

P. 62. In Bp. Kenet's Regifter, is the follow-
ing Entry j

Donum

Doctiflimi Authoris

brevi poft extincli

Dec. 19, 1728, mihi quidem flebilis occidit.

P. 66. And in that of Mr. Anftis Regifter of

the noble Order of the Garter.

Donum ornatifiimi viri Joannis

Anftis Armigeri Fecialis Primarii,

Vulgo, Garter Principalis Regis

Armorum five Infignium.

APPEN-

APPENDIX.

No. I. p. 40.

TH E following Soliloquy is here intro-
duced, as a Specimen of Mr. Baker's Pi-
ety, not of his Poetical abilities.

Upon myfelf 3 and to my God.

My God, and what am I? — A Thing of
nought.
Hid from myfelf, and yet compos'd of Thought.
How vain thefe thoughts ? how oft without Effect ?
And yet I pleafe myfelf, that I reflect.
Proud of a Phantom, that can only mow,
That I more furely think, than furely know ;
Ruffled with Paflions, with Affections blind,
Involved in Clouds, nor Reft, nor Light I find,
Till he that breath'd the Spark, does reinfpire
my Mind.

Thou

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Thou that breath'ft Life into the unthinking

Clod,
Be thou my Light, as thou haft been my God.
Thou took'ft me from the Womb, — fince, me

upheld,
Be thou my Strength, as thou hail: been my

Shield,
As furely fo thou art, — from Deaths, from Tears
Thou oft preferv'dft me, — oft renew'dft my

Years,
Difpell'd my Sorrows, banifh'd all my Fears.
To Dangers oft expos'd, thy Help implor'd,
By Follies loft, — as oft I've been reftor'd.

When Duty call'd me forth to rifque my all,
Juft was my Lot, but eafy was my Fall;
The Griefs and Sufferings, that mean Souls an-
noy,
Thou mak'ft them light to me, and turn 'ft to joy.
So light, that if in ought I bear thy Crofs,
It grieves me, that nought I merit by the Lofs.
My Sins more juftly fcourges might demand,
Should Juftice ftrike, as Mercy holds the Hand;
In that my Refuge, there I place my Reft,
Nor hurt by Frowns, in Spite of Fortune bleft.
For all thefe Mercies, juft Returns from me
Are due, — and yet my beft Returns, I owe to
thee 3

My

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My Pray'rs, my Vows, and all that ftiould be

mine,
E'en thefe are due to thee, and truly thine.

Oh were I thine myfelf ! The Offering made,
Were it as worthy thee, as freely paid ;
But Worth, (forbid the Word) my Sins forbid ;
Pardon's my Plea, and Sins by Mercy hid.
Fixt here, I ftand, in hopes of Crimes forgiv n ;
I trample Earth and antidate my Heav'n -,
In brighter Manfions may I have my Share,
And follow Thoughts, that are already there,
But low therein, — for lowly is my PrayY.

July 7th, Die meo natali.

No. II. p. 44.

Of Hartman Schedel's Chronicon Chronicorum
printed at Nuremberg, by Ant.Koberger, An. 1493,
We have four Copies (or more) at Cambridge,
two in the publick Library, one at St. John's,
the fourth and mod beautiful at Trinity College,
with the Faces, Maps and other Figures fairly
depicted in Colours. In this laft Folio clxxxiii,
are the Pictures of the Emperor, feven Electors,
Princes and Counts of the Empire, with their
Arms fairly depicled, and this Note in MS. "Hasc
Scuta recle pinguntur in fuis Coloribus juxta Ju-
dicium

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dicium Heraldi." The reft have the Arms but not
in Colors.

At Folio cclxi, [which is a blank in the ordi-
nary Copies] is a Picture of Antichrift very mon-
itrous, with feven Heads [Terpentine] and almoft
as many Colors, and upon the Pedeftal this In-
fcription in MS. " Haec depinxit Jacobus Jaqueri
de Civitate Taurini in pede Montium An. Domini
millefimo quatercentefimoprimo, [in the ordinary
Copies, and in this, there is a Print of Antichrift
[not fo monftrous] at Folio cclxii.] on the oppo-
site Page thefe rhyming Verfes, and following
Note in Englifh.

Judicabit Judices Judex generalis,

Hie mihi proderit dignitas papalis,

Sive fit Epifcopus five Cardinalis,

Reus condemnabitur, nee dicetur qualis.

Hie nihil proderit quicquam allegare,

Neque excipere neque replicare,

Nee ad Apoftolicam Sedem appellare,

Reus condemnabitur nee dicetur quare.

Cogitate miferi qui vel quales eftis,

quid in hoc Judicio dicere poteftis,

Idem erit Dominus, Judex, Actor, Teftis.

This Picture was fet in the Temple of the Ja-
cobins at Jenoua, in An. 1401, a fhowe of An-
techrifte, and from thens, abrode into the

Worlde,

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Worlde, that the Abomination of the Wicked
maye be perceived. B.S.M.

Stephen Batman's Name is upon the Book (in
fronte libri) [I am apt to think the Verfes on
Judgment are his ; he has wrote, The Doome,
warning all Men to the Judgement, &c]

In all the Copies that I have feen, Trin. Coll.
St. John's Coll. and one of the Bp. of Ely's (the
other I have not feen) at Folio ccxix. is the Print-
or Picture of Pope Joan, with a triple Crown
and a Child in her Arms, infteadof a Crofs borne
by the reft of the Popes, with her Story : both
fair and undefaccd, neither of them obliterated,
as they are in mod, or many Copies, as Mr.
Hearne informs me.

At Folio cclii, there is a good Authority for
the Invention of Printing at Mentz, &c. There
is another Copy of this Book at Chrifl College,
&c. Since another Copy (penes me) with Pope
Joan's Picture undefaced, only the Face of the
Mother and Child, a little fcratched, the reft of
the Book very fair and perfect.

No. III. p. 48,

M. S.

Johannis Smith, S.T.P.

Lowtherke in Agro Weftmarienfi nati :

Qui Juvenis,

in

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in hoc celeberrimum Collegium cooptatus eft ;

ubi bonis moribus informatus, et ingenuis Artibus

eruditus, ejufdem Coliegii decus

totlufque Ecclefis ornamentum evafit.

Quern

mira Facilltas morum et Elegantia, Comitati

adjun6tafempei'Gravitas}AnimiCandoretmodeftia

Ornatum ;

Ingenii Faecunditas, acumen Judicii, Memorise Vigor,

in re literaria promovenda. Fatalis induftria,

Doclum ;

In adverfis rebus animi magnitudo, in fecundis

Continentia, in Deum deniq. fuofq. fingularis Pietas

Optimum fuifTe demonftrarunt.

Ob hasc merita, quibus Honti(r'mi. et Revdi. admodum Epifcopi

gratiamfibi conciliavit, in numerum Canonicorum
Dunelmenfium prius adfcitus, dein in Ecciefiam

Weremurhse Epi Parochialem promotus eft.
Hifce Sacerdotiis honeftis audtus, ea non minus digne,

quam ipfa ilium exornavit.

Antiqua Ecclefise Jura et Privilegia nemo fortius

defenfit. Eloquentiam cum Theologia, omnefq.

bonas Artes cum facris Uteris adeo conjunxit;

ut Orator copiofus, Philologus eximius, Theologus

abfolutus merito audiret.

In Hiftoricis, Anglicis praefertim, evolvendis

fuit maxime afliduus; advertenfq. animum,

quod polita Venerabilis Bsedas Operum

Hiftoricorum defideraretur Editio, id laboris

a. nullo potius, quam a Canonico Dunelm. Biedae

[ *27 ]
Set. Comprefbytero et Populari, fubeundum duxit :
Huic igitur muneri fe accinxit ; fed, proh dolor!

dum non valgari Studio praelo infudaret ;

morte in medio ope re immatura praereptus eft :

Et intra facram hujus Collegii asdem, cujus in Gremio ic

nutritum non fine pia voluptate faspius jactavit,

humatus eft.

Natns, Anno Dni. 1659.

Obiit 30 Julii, 17 1 5.

No. IV. p. 60.

Taken from Mr. Baker's MSS. Vol. XXXIX,
p. 185, but fomewhat abridged.

An Account of Dr. Peter Baro (alias Baron)
and his Family, found in the Study of Mr. An-
drew Baron, late Fellow of Peterhoufe, his great
Grandfon.

Eftienne Baron, efpoufa en Marriage Philipe
Petit, eurent plufieurs Enfans Fils et Filles, en-
tre autres Jehan, Florent, et Pierre.

Pierre natif d' Eftampes fut mis aux Eftudes,
et apres avoir eftudie en Droict Civil quelques
Annees, fut pafse l'an. 1556, le 9' d' April, Ba-
chelier en DroicT: a Bourges, and le jour fuivant
receu Licentier en loix eftant age de 22 a 23

ans. L'an 15$/, fut receu et jure Advo-

cat en la Court de Parlement de Paris. Depuis
eftant age de 26 ans, l'an et mois que Francois
deuxiefme Roy de France morut a Orleans, c'eft

a dire.

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a dire, Tan 1560, en Decembre, fe retira a Geneve,
et la, s'eftant adonne a l'eftude de Theolosie, fut
faicl: Miniftre, et receut l'impofition des Mains
par Jean Calvin.

Apres retournament en France efpoufa a Gien
1'an 1563, entre le 19 de May et le 7 de Juin en
fuivant Guillemette Burgoin fille d'Eftienne Bour-

goin Merchant, et de Lopfe Dozival. . De

Pierre Barron et Guillemette Burgoin fa Femme
naquit a Orleans premierement une Fille le pre-
mier jour de Juin, 1564. Qui fut nominee
Marthe, par Eftienne Baron fon Aieul.

Depuis un fils aufii a Orleans le 15 Janvier,
1566, qui fut nomme Pierre, par Jehan Pinfelet.
■ ■ L'an 1567, le quatriefme jour de Novembre
encores un fils a Orleans, qui fut nomme Efti-
enne par Francoys Burgoin Ion Oncle.

LeDimanche 10 jour d' Octobre, 1568, naquit
encores un fils a Sancerre, iequel fut nomme Efti-
enne, qui mourut le jour fuivant, par fon Aieul
maternel Eftienne Bourgoin.

Le Vendredi 26 de May, a Sancerre naquit une
autre fille laquelle fut nommee Marie par fon
Oncle maternel Anthoine Burgoin.

Depuis le fufdict Pierre Baion s'eftant retire
avec fa Femmc Guillemette Burgoin et fes En-
fans a Cambridge, l'une des deux Univerfites d
Angleterre, a caufe des troubles de la France, fut

1:1

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le ProfefTeur des Lettres Hebraiques et en Theo«-
logic mefme: fat receu Docleur en Theologieu.

Au dicl Cambridge le hui£tiefme jour de Juillet
1574, luy naquit Ion quatriefme fils, qui fut
nomme Andre par B. Dodingthon ProfefTeur da
Roy en la Langue Greque et Artus Purifoy.

Au mefme lieu de Cambridge le 24 d' Aouft,
1 S77j naquit encores une fille, et 39 heures apres,
un autre, lcfquelles furent nominee Elizabeth,
la primiere par Gabriel fils de Monfieur Mongo-
meriet Damoifelles Boulingham et Norgett, et V
autre Catherine par Monfieur Pillard et Damoi-
feile Goad et Dame. —

Thus far feems to be in the Hand-writing of
the Doctor himfelf; who refigned his Lechirefhip
of Divinity in 1596, after having read Lectures
in the Univerfity for twenty four Years with Ap-
probation, for the fmall Sum of twenty Pounds
per Annum, forefeeing that he could not hold it
much longer, on Account of fome Opinions he
held, that were not then deemed Orthodox \

There were fome however who frill retained a
good Opinion of him, particularly Dr. Jegon,

Mailer

" Feb. 3, 157^,6 Mr. Petr. Barron, licentiatus in [ure Civili, in
Acad. Biturienii, incorporates Cantab. RegilL Acad.

Conceif. 8 June, 1576, Magitlro Petro Barron, PraelecL Lecl.
Theol. per dominam Marg. fundat. ad incipiend. in Sac. Theol.

* [lis and Barrett's C?Se may be feen at large in a MS. of ABp.
Whitgif't, in Trin. Coll, and in Strype's Lire of Whitgift, p. 464,
&c. and from his Letters in Baker's Coll. Vol. XX. p. 54.3.

I

[ >3° ]
Matter of Benet College, as appears by an Ex-
tract from a Letter of his to the ABp. of Can-
terbury of the 4th of Dec. 1596. tc I eafily

perceive by Letters from your Grace your good
Opinion and gracious Meaning to that Rev. old
Man Mr. Dr. Baron, who hath been here longe
Time a painful Teacher of Hebrew and Divinity
to myfelf and others. To whome I am (as I have
aiways beene) very willing to fhowe my thankful
Minde; but he hath lately found fome heavy
Friends among us, to the Prejudice of his for-
mer Creduit, and his prefent Re-election. But if
he returns, and pleafe to take Pains, in reading
Hebrewe Lectures in private Houfes, I doubt not
but to his good Creduit, there may be raifed as
great a Stipend. — To the Lecture is chofen Mr.
Dr. Playfere/"

He did not however accept this Propofal, fince
we are allured by the Extract of a Letter from
his Grandfon Sam. Baron, M.D. dated 3 April,
1 67 1. — <c That foon after one was elected into
the ProfefTor's Place which he had held, he retired
himfelf to London, and lived and died in a Houfe
in Dyer's Yard in Crutched Fryers Street, over
againft St. Olive's Church, in which he was
buried."

" He was carried to his Grave by fix Doctors
in Divinity, and one Dr. Symfon, Minitter of the

Church

-' Bake*'-. Ol* Vol. XXIV. p. 355.

[ i3» ]

Church, preached his Funeral Sermon. How
long fince that was, I can give no Account, but
that may foon be known by fearching the Re-
gifter there, neither did he ever go into France

after he parted with the ProfefTor's Place." ■

Dr. Baron left two Sons, from the eldeft of
which, was defcended this Samuel Baron, who
practiced Phyfick at Lynn Regis in Norfolk,
whence the above Letters are dated, and mimed
Frances Goddard, the Daughter of Thomas God-
dardof Stanhow, in the faid County, Gentleman,
Feb. 15, 1630, by whom he had IfTue thirteen
Sons and Daughters. He died on 12 April, 1673,
and was buried in the Chancel of All Saints
Church in South Lynn, near his Mother, with
this Infcription upon a Marble Stone lying over him.

Hie jacet Samuel Baron, M.D.

Qui pofl hanc vitam, quam bonis

Operibus et vera pietate ornaverat, Ccelo

donatus eft 120. die Aprilis, Anno Domini 1673,

Andrew Baron, his fifth Son, was born June
iS, 1645, and admitted Penfioner of St. Peter's
College on 2d Day of May, 1661. He took the
Degree of A.B. in 1664, was elecled Fellow in
the following Year, and proceeded A.M. in 1667.
Mr. Baker in a Letter to Mr. Strype, dated from
Cambridge Dec. 22, 1729, thus addrefles him,

12 c< Worthy

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" Worthy Sir,

" I have again fent you an Ac-
count of Dr. Peter Baro, and his Ported ty. The
Marriage of Dr. Sam. Baron, and Birth of his
Children, is only abridged, not being much to
the Purpofe, and having fent it at large in my
former Papers, could you meet with them. Mod
of them I believe died young, fo the Eftate de-
fcended to Andrew Baron, in whofe Study thefe

Papers were found at his Death. At the

fame Time I fent you a large Account of Dr.
Perne, who dying before your prefent Period, it

is too late to fay more of him. Dr. Grey

prefents you with his Service, to promote fo good
a Work, he is willing to undertake the Index3.
He is as kind and friendly a Man as any one I
know.

Yours, &c.

Thomas Baker/'

No. V. p. 73.

Carolo

Duci Somerfetenfi,

Strenuo juris Academici Defenfori,

Accrrimo Libertatis Publicx vindici,

Statuarn
Lectiflimarum Matronarum Munus,

L.M,

* l'o iV. Vol. cf die Annals of the Reformation published in 1 7 —

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L. M. poncndam decrevit,

Academia Cantrabrigienfis,

Quarn Prcefidio fuo munivit,

Auxit Munificientia,

Per annos plus Sexaginta,

Cancellarius.

On the reverfe :

Hanc Statuam

Suas in Parentem pietatis,

In Academiam ftudii

Monti men turn,

Ornatiflimae Fceminse

Francifca Marchionis de Granby Conjux,

Charlotta Baronis de Guernfey,

S. P. faciendam curaverunt

1756.

No. VI. p. 83.

In the Name of God Amen. I Thomas Ba-
ker, Ejected Fellow of Saint John's College, in
Cambridge, do make my laft Will and Testa-
ment as follows.

Firlt, I commend my Soul into the Hands of
Almighty God (my gracious and good God) my
faithful Creator, and merciful Redeemer, and in
all my Dangers and Difficultys, a moft conftant
Protector, blefled for ever be his Holy Name.

1 3 As

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As to the Temporal Goods, it has pleafed the
fame good God to bellow upon me, (fuch as all
Men might be content with, and are I blefs God,
neither Poverty nor Riches) I difpofe of them in
the following Manner,

Whereas 1 have made a Deed of Gift (or Sale
for one Guinea) of twenty one Volumes in Folio,
of my own Handwriting, to the right honourable
Edward Earl of Oxford, I confirm and ratify
that Gift by this my laff. Will, and I beg his
Lordfhip's Acceptance of them, being fenfible
they are of little Ufe or Value, with two other
Volumes in Folio, fmce conveyed to hirrr in like
Manner.

To my dear Coufin George Baker, Efq. of
Crook j I leave the Life of Cardinal Wolfey, no-
ted with my own Hand ; Lord Clarendon's
Hiftory with Cuts and Prints, and Winvvood's
Memorials, in three Volumes in Folio, with a
five Pound (Jacobus) piece of Gold, as a Mark
of Refpect and Affection, fince he does not
Want it.

To my Coufin Ferdinand Baker, my Silver
Salver as promifed.

To my worthy Kinfman and Friend Mr. George
Smith, I leave Godwin de Prasfulibus Anglias,
WTarasus de Prasfulibus Hybernias, both noted
with my own Hand.

To the Rev. and Learned Dr. Newcome, Ma-
iler

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fter of St. John's College, I leave a Ring of a
Guinea; with two Tables of the Matters of St.
John's College in Frames, with my Founder's
Picture for himfelf or College, and to his excel-
lent Lady a Ring of one Guinea.

To my worthy Friend Dr. Dickins, Regius
Profeflbr of Law, I leave the firft Edition of
Linwood's Provincial, in a large Folio, and black
Letter, with a Ring of a Guinea, and Dr. Cor-
bet'sb Picture for himfelf, or the College.

To the worthy Mr. Burrough, Fellow of Caius
College, I leave Bifhop CofinsV Picture for the
College,

And my worthy Friend Dr. Knight, I leave
Archbifhop Parker's Picture, together with an
other Picture (near my Bed) of Doctor Hum-
phrey Tindal, Dean of Ely (as fuppofed) and
the Date and Year agree exactly.

All my other Pictures and Prints undifpofed of,
I leave to my worthy Friend Dr. Grey1, LLD.
for the Ornament of his Houfe, with a Ring of

a Guinea

b Clement Corbet, LL.D. Matter of Trinity Hall, 1611.

c Bp. of Durham, 1660.

l! Pictures left to Dr. Zach. Grey, by this very worthy Man,
were King James I, King Charles I and II, James Duke of York,
half length by Sir Peter Lely, Lord Strafford, Hugo de Balfham,
Bp. of Ely, Mr. Perkins, Dr. Shorton, firft Matter of St. John's, and
of Pembroke Hall, drawn in his Robes; a hunting of the Wild
Boar, by Kecherman ; a Pitture of Brook, Lord Cobham, of Dudley ;
Fenner, a noted Republican ; an original Picture of old Parr, with
feveral morC:

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a Guinea to him, Dr. Middleton, Dr. Williams;
Mrs. Burton of Ellamore : and my dear Niece
and Goddaughter, Mrs. Margaret Shepperfon,
and the reverend Mr. John Bofwell, Vicar of
Taunton, and Prebendary of Wells,

To Saint John's College Library, I leave all
fuch Books printed or MS. as I have, and are
wanting there ; excepting thofe I leave in Trufr,
to my worthy Friend Dr. Middleton, for the
Univerfity Library; Archbilhop Wake's State of
the Church, noted and improved under his own
Hand. Bifhop Burnet's Hiftory of the Reform-
ation, three Volumes, noted in my Hand ; and
Bifhop Rennet's Regifter and Chronicle, (for the
Memory of which three great Prelates, my ho-
noured Friends, I mull always have a due Re-
gard:) to thefe I add Mr. Anftis, my worthy
Friend's Hiftory of the Garter, in two Volumes
Folio. Wood's Athenae Oxonienfes, and Man-
fel's Catalogue, both noted with my own Hand,
and Gunton's and Patrick's Hiftory of the Church
of Peterborough, noted (for Bifhop Kennet) with
my Hand, with fifteen Volumes, more or lefs, in
Folio, all in my own Hand, and three Volumes
in Quarto, Part in my own Hand.

To the Poor of the Parifh of Lanchefter, where
(at Crook) I was born ; and to the Poor of the
Parifh of Long Newton, where I was ejected, to
each Parifh I leave ten Pounds : and to the Col-
lege

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lege Servants of Saint John the Evangelift, ten
Pounds, amongft fuch as mail be willing to ac-
cept a Share ; and out of that I leave five Pounds
to my Bedmaker.

As to my Funeral I am not folicitous, I defire
nothing but Chriftian Burial 3 Chrilt be merciful
to me a Sinner.

Laftly, I constitute and appoint my dear Ne-
phew Richard Burton Efq. my Sole Executor, to
whom I leave every Thing undifpofed of, which
I hope will be enough to defray his Trouble.

May God Almighty blefs him, and give him
all the engaging Qualities of his Father, all the
Virtues of his Mother, and none of the Sins, or
Failings of his Uncle, which God knows are
great, and many ; and humbly (O my God) I call
for Mercy.

In Teftimony of this my laft Will, I have
hereunto fet my Hand and Seal, this fifteenth
Day of October, 1739.

Thomas Baker.

Sealed, figned, delivered and declared by the
aforefaid Thomas Baker, for his laft Will and
Teftament, in the Prefence of us,

William Clapham,
Charles Richards.

And now O my God into thy Hand I con-
tentedly

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tentedly refign myfelf, whether it be to Life or
Death, thy Will be done.

Long Life I have not defired, (and yet haft
thou given it me) give me if it be thy good Plea-
fure, an eafy and a happy Death c : or if it (hall
pleafe Thee to vifit me feverely (as my Sins have
deferved) give me Patience to bear thy Cor-
rection, and let me always fay, even with my dy-
ing Breath, thy Will be done.

Amen, Amen.

No. VII. p. 86.

The following Grace was propofed Dec. 29,
and granted 30th of December, 1740, in the Se-
nate Houfe at Cambridge.

Vvhereas the reverend Thomas Baker, late of
Saint John's College, in this Univerfity, did be-
queath by Will, to Dr. Conyers Middleton, the
Principal Librarian, in Truft for the Publick Li-
brary, feveral Books both printed and MS. of
great Value, relating in a great Meafure to the
Hiftory and Constitution of this Univerfity :
which Books are now ready to be delivered, for
the Purpofes intended in the laid Bequeft. May
it pleafe you, that the Curators of the Public Li-
brary be im powered, to fix the faid Books in fuch
Part of the Univerfity Library, and under fuch

Reftrictions,

c This according to Suetonius, was the Wifti of Auguftus, "Sibi
stSuis, ivSumcna* precabatur." Vitse Cap. 99.

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ReftricYions, as they or a Majority of them,
(whereof the Vicechancellor for the Time being,
to be one) fhall judge moil convenient, and fai%
ther to direct the drawing up fuch Index, or In-
dexes, as fhall be judged wanting to complete the
Ulefulnefs, or Benefit of this valuable Legacy;
and that it fhall not be lawful for any Perfon,
under any pretence whatever, to borrow any of
the faid Books, at lead till fuch Time as the faid
Indexes fhall be completed : and may it moreover
pleafe you, that this may be an Inftruclion to the
faid Curators, that they procure a Memorial of
the faid Mr. Baker and his Benefaction, to be in-
ferted in the Commemoration Book, among the
Benefactors to the Public Library.

No. VIII. p. 90.

The reverend Mr. Baker, was found by his
Bedmaker on Saturday the 28th of June, 1740,
at five o'clock in the Afternoon, lying upon his
Floor : where he was judged to have fallen two
Hours before, by the Circumftance of a clean
Pipe, which laid broken by his Side, and which
he generally went to fetch about three o'Clock.
His Face was fo much convulfed, that Part of
what he faid was with Difficulty underflood. A
great Stupor feemed to hang upon his Senfes;
and one Side of him appeared to be helplefs, and

dead.

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dead. Sometimes he feemed to difregard what was
doing about him, and would talk as if he was
a little light-headed ; at other Times he would
recollect himfelf, and know thofe, who were with
him, recommending himfelf to their Prayers, for
an eafy Death ; expreffing with great Refignation,
that he. perceived his Time was come, and thank-
ing his Friends for theirgood Offices, with his ufual
Humanity. In this Way he continued, till a lit-
tle after feven on Wednefday Evening, when he
expired. He either could not fwallow, or elfe
would not confent to take any, either Food or
Medicine ; and it was but a very little, of what
his Attendants put into his Mouth, which might
fometimes go down his Throat without his re-
garding it. But in general, whatever was offered
him to take, or to be done for him (except put-
ting on a clean Shirt, which he feemed to be much
pleafed with, making fome little Efforts to ailift
in putting it on) gave him great Uneafinefs, as
knowing it was difturbing him to no Purpofe :
which was therefore forborn, as much as could
be, without neglecting him. Flis Death feemed
to be juft fuch an one, as he had often talked of,
and defired ; preceded by a very Ihort Sicknefs,
and attended with little, or no Pain. It was ren-
dered more fortunate, from the Circumftance of
of his Executor, and near Relation (Mr. Burton)
happening to be with him, a Day or two before

he

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he was taken ill, and of courfe (laying to take
Care of Mr. Baker, during his fhort Illuefs, and
to fettle his Affairs.

No. IX. p. 93.

Haud procul hinc jacet, Georgius Baker Miles.
Pater f

Avus < Geo. Baker, Armig.
Proavus £
Qui poftquam Multa pro Rege,
pro Patria fecifiet, tulifletque,
prascipue in propugnando fortiter Novo Caftro
contra Scotos tunc Rebelles,
Hie tandem indigno, et Mentis Suis Difpari
Fato conceffit.
Auguft. AnnoM.DC.LXVII.
At non paffus eft Deus tantam Virtutem penitus latere,
Obfcure obiit, honorifice tamen Sepultus,
Funus Ejus profequentibus
Militum Tribuno Totaque Cohorte Militari,
Memorabili Honoris, pietatifque exemplo.

Tandem cum per Quadraginta plus minus annosnegle&usjacuiflet,

Nepos ejus Thomas Baker, S.T.B.

Non tarn Virtutis, quam Adverfae Fortune Hseres,

Avi Chariflimi Indignae Sortis Mifertus,

Hoc Ei Monument um Meerens lubens pofuit,

Anno 171 Oo

M.S. a Nepote Defuncli.

No:

I.c Neve's Monument. Angl. N. 319. p. tsj

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No. X. p. 93.

Dr. Grey received the following Account of
Mr. Baker's Funeral, from the Rev. Mr. Cole,
then refident in King's College, Cambridge.

Mr. Baker died in St. John's College, July 2,
1740, and was folemnly buried in the Anti-Cha-
pel of that College, under the North Wall, about
the Head of Dr. Afliton's Tomb, the whole So-
ciety following the Corps in ProceiTion, in their
Surplices, from the College Hall, where it had
repofed, and round the firft Court before they en-
tered the Chapel : where the reverend Dr. Philip
Williams, Fellow of the College, and Orator of
the Univerfity, chanted the whole Evening Ser-
vice, the Corps lying in the Choir. After the
Service was over, Mr. Clarke, one of the Fellows
of the College, from his Stall, made a Funeral
Oration in his Favour in Latin. Which being
finifhed, the Corps was removed out of the Choir
into the Antichapel, where the Funeral Service
was read over him by Dr. Williams. — I was at
the Funeral, and fat in the Choir with one Mon-
fieur Leonard, a Counsellor of the Chatelet at
Paris, who having not been in England above ten
Days, coming to Cambridge to confult a MS. in
the Univerfity Library, and knowing the deceafed
by Fame, was equally defirous of feeing the laft

Funeral

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Funeral Honours due to fo worthy a Perfon, as
well as the Ceremony made ufe of by the Church
of England on fuch Occafionsj the Decency and
Order of which he was much pleafed with.

In a Letter of Dr. Waterland, dated 6 July,
1740, is the following PafTage.

" We have lately here loft an excellent Man,
who lived and died in that pleafurable Kind of
Toil, entertaining himfelf, and ferving diftant
Friends, in a literary Way. I am juft come from
hearing a fine Panegyric of him from St. Maries
Pulpit. Mr. Baker was the Perfon I mean, as you
would have imagined without my naming him.
He lived to a great Age: but fo lived, as to make
it neceflary for thofe he leaves behind him, to
think he died too foon."

No. XI. p. 101.

Notes of Mr. Baker, prefixed to Smith's Cata-
logue of the Cotton Library, Folio 1696.

From Mr. Pory his Letter of the 1 2th of May,
1631.

" That Sir Robert Cotton (whom he
called that unparalleled Antiquary and Statefman)
was dead on Friday Morning laft, who in the
Time of his Sicknefs had fent for Mr. Oidfworth

the

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the Divine, who had ftriclly confefled him, re-
conciled him to Almighty God, abfolved him
from his Sinns, and infufed fuch Comfort into
his Soule, as he would not Want (as Mr. Pory
faith, Sir Robert himfelf told him) to be the
greateft Monarch in the World. That the Bifhop
of Lincoln (Dr. Williams) alfo, attended by the
Bifliop of St. David's (Dr. Field) and Dr. Perfe,
Minifter of the Place, having been with him the
greateft Part of the Night before he died, and
having abfolved him once more, faid at his De-
parture from him, that he came thither to bring
Sir Robert Cotton Comfort, but that he carried
away with him more Comfort from him than he
brought. That before he died, he had requefted
Sir Henry Spelman, to fignify to the Lord Privy
Seal, and to the reft of the Lords of the Coun-
cell, that their fo long detaining of his Books
from him, without rendering any Reafon for the
fame, had been the Caufe of his mortal Maladie.
Upon which Meflage, that the Lord Privy Seal
came to Sir Robert, when it was too late, to com-
fort him from the King, from whome, that the
Earle of Dorfet came likewife, within half an
houre after Sir Robert his Death, to condole
with Sir Robert his Sone, for his Death, and tell
him from his Majefty, that as he loved his Fa-
ther, fo he would continue his love to him.
That Sir Robert hath entailed, as Aire as Law

'■an

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can make it, his Library of Books (which Mr.
Pory faith, would appear in his Heart, if it were
ript up, as Calice in Queen Marie's) upon his
Son Sir Thomas Cotton, and his Pofterity, who
after he fhall have performed his Father's Exe-
quies (whofe Corps was yefternight carried to-
wards his antient Manour of Cunnington, in
Huntingtonfhire) Mr. Pory faith, makes no doubt
to obtain the fame, but that he for his Part, for
all thefe Court Holy Waters, fhall a while fufpend
his Belief thereof. MS. Puckering, modo Harley.

This Account had been fent either to Sir Adam
Newton, or Sir Thomas Puckering, amongft
whofe MSS. I found it, and contains fomewhat
of Hiftory, not known to the worthy Publifher
of Sir Robert's Life. From Vol. XVI, of his
MSS. p. 473,4.

Of Sir Robert's Imprifonment, or Reftraint,
and Enlargement. See Ufher, Letter 147. —
Sir Robert Cotton's Books are threatened to be
taken away, becaufe he is accufed to impart an-
tient Precedents to the Lower Houfe. See Mede's
Letter to Sir Martin Stuteville, dated April 28,
1626.

He died at his Houfe in Weftminfter, the fixth
Day of May, about ten of the Clock in the Fore-
noon, Anno 1 63 1, being aged threefcore Years,
three Months and fome fewodde Days, as Weever

K informs

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informs us in his Epiftle to the Reader, prefixed
to his Funeral Monuments, where may be feen
a Funeral Elegy upon his Death.

Epicedium Rob. Cottoni, ad calcem Epift.
Thomae Mori ad, Acad. Oxon. editae. a Rich.
Jamafio, An. 1633, 4to. Item de Puteo Sti Ed-
wardian ^Edibus Cottonianis fubejus Obitum ex-
arefcente. Ibid.

There is a very particular Account of the
Books burnt and damaged by the Fire in 173 1,
but as that is printed in Cafley's Catalogue, it
will not be neceflary to repeat it here; and it
would be too tedious to infert, many other Parti-
culars of the Cotton Family, there to be found.

I {hall give a Place however to one Note on
the third Book in the Catalogue, " Andreas qui-
dam Tholofates, Praeceptor Arthuri Prineipis,
ccecus Adulator, nee Adulator tantum, fed et De-
lator peffimus. Vide Orofii Epift. p. 1263, &c.

This Author was Poet Laureat, and Hiftorio-
grapher to Hen. VII. and (though blind) was in-
truded with the Inftruclion of Prince Arthur,
the King's Son. See more of him in Speed's
Life of that King.

The Abridgement of the Records, paffing un-
der the Name of Sir Robert Cotton, was not his,
but made by Mr. Bowyer, Keeper of the Records,
temp Eliz. See Tyrrell's Introduction to Vol.
Ill, of his Ilillory of England.

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To a Book intitled, tc The Court and Kitchen
of Elizabeth (commonly called Joan) Cromwell,
Wife of the late Ufurper, truly defcribed and re-
prefented, &c. London 1664, 121110." were pre-
fixed the following Memorandums. Several

creditable Perfons of this City (Leige) allured me,
that Richard Cromwell, Son to the Ufurper, died
here {even or eight Years before my being in the
Place; where he lived unknown, and welljTup-
plied with Money. That after his Death, he was
difcovered by his Papers f. — This however could
no farther be done, than that he might privately
leave Leige about that Time, and fo imagined to
be dead, fince it is well known he lived many
Years after that Time, at Chefhunt in Hertford-
(hire, under the Name of Clarke, where he died
July 13, 1712, at the Age of 86 Years5.

The Infcription on the Coffin of Lady Eliza-
beth Claypole, buried in Henry the Vllth's Cha-
pel, Weftminrrer Abbey.

Depofitum

Illuftriflimse Dominse D. Elizabethan

nuper Uxoris honoratiflimi Domini Dni.

Johannis Claypoole Magiftri Equiris,

necnon Filiae iccundie Serenifiimi

et

1 See Veryard's Travels, Folio 1701.

P See the Anna!: of Qoeen Anne, Vol. XI. p. 3S3, and the Lon-
dun Mrgazine for 1774, p. 133.

K 2

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et celfiffimi Principis Oliveri Dei

Gratia, Anglise, Scotiae, et Hibernke, &c,

Protectoris.

Obiit

apud Mdcs Hamptonienfes fexto die

Augufti, anno iEtatis viceffimo octavo

annoque Domini, 1658.

The following Remarks are entered by Mr.
B — in Robert Stephens's Latin Bible, in Oclavo,

1555-

Chevillier, though he writes the Hiftory of

Printing, and was very curious in marking Edi-
tions, yet had not met with any Edition of the
Bible with Distinction of Verfes before 1557,
whereas this Edition is two Years fooner, and
probably the firft that ever was printed in that
Manner : but the New Teftament was thus prin-
ted two Years foonerh. And though Robert Ste-
phens was then at Geneva, and looked upon as
an Heretick, yet this his Distinction has been
fince followed by Roman Catholicks, and by
popes themfelves, viz. Sixtus V, and Clement
VIII, in their Editions of the Bible, ih that R. S.
may be faid to have been a Guide to the Popes.

The New Teftament in Englifh, was printed
by Conrad Badius, An. 1557, x January, in a
very beautiful Letter, with Diftindtion of Vcrfes

[penes

fa Voycz L' Origine cle L1 Imprimcrie par Chevillier, p. 143,

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[penes me] and is the fir ft New Teftament that
was ever printed in Englifh in that Manner. It is a
very fcarce and curious Book, I never favv another
perfect Copy, nor had Mr. Lewis met with it.

No. XII. p. 18.

As the following Heads, taken from whole
length Figures on Glafs in a praying Pcfhue1,
by Friends well fkilled in Drawing, bearing fo
near a Relation to Lady Margaret abovemen-
tioned, and being in themfelves fo curious, as
well as perhaps the moll considerable Remains
of fiich eminent Perfons, are thought by them,
whofe judgment may be relied on, worthy of
Prefervation, they fhall in compliance with their
Requcir, willingly have a Place here.

The firft, I believe, I may fafely venture to
affirm, is JOHN BEAUFORT, Son of John Earl
of Somerfet (by Margaret Daughter of Thomas
Holland Earl of Kentk) the eldeft Son of John
of Gaunt, Duke of Lancafter, by Catharine
Swinford. He fuccceded his elder Brother Flenry,
who died young, in the Title of Somerfet, 6

Henry

1 They are now in the PofTefiion of the Editor, from an Oratory
creeled to the Memory of I.ady Margaret, her Family and Friends.

k This Lady afterwards married Thomas Duke of Clarence, fe-
f.ond Son of Henry IV, whom fhe furvived, and dying on 31 Dec.
1440, lies entombed between her two Hulbands in the Cathedra! of
Canterbury. Sandford's Geneal. Hift. p. 310, 11, 24, where the
Tomb is engraved.

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Henry V, and was much employed by that King,
who made him a Knight of the Garter, in the
Wars of France ; where he was taken Prifoner,
when the Duke of Clarence loft his Life, in an
Engagement with the French and Scots near
Beaufort. After a long Confinement, he at length
obtained his Releafe, and in the 15th of Henry
VI, he, accompanied by divers Nobles had a
Commirlion to lay Siege to Harfleur, which after
a front Refiftance yielded to him. In reward of
which, and many other Services in thefe Wars>
he was created Duke of Somerfet and Earl of
Kendale (21 Henry VI) and had fome confider-
able Appointments in the Government of France:
but dying the Year following, had a very fhort
Enjoyment of thefe Honours.

The fecond is MARGARET his Wife1, the Relift
of Sir Oliver St. John, Knt. and Daughter of
Sir John Beauchamp, of Bletfo, Knt. (afterwards
LordBeauchamp, of Powick, and Lord Treafurer
of England,) as well as Sifter and Heirefs, to
John Beauchamp, by whom he had one Daugh-
ter and Heirefs MARGARET; who married firft to
Edmund de Hadham, Earl of Richmond, the
Son of Owen Tudor, by Catherine, the Widow
of Henry V, by whom me became Mother to

Henry

1 She furvived him, and married Lionel Lord Wells, by whcm me
had lfTue, Jchn Yil'c Wells, who married Cecilia fecond Daughter
of Edward IV. ib. p. 327.

[ W 1
Henry VII1. After the Death of the Earl of Rich*
mond ', die married Sir Henry Stafford, a younger
Son of Humphrey Duke of Buckingham, and
after his Death, Thomas Lord Stanley, who was
created Earl of Derby, and highly carefled by
her Son, whom he had ferved in the Battle of
Bofvvorth. The Time of the Death of the Dutchefs
of Somerfet is not mentioned, fhe is interred,
however, with her fecond Hufband in Winburn
Minfter, where a Monument of elegant Workman-
fliip, with beautiful Figures of Alabafter, holding
hand in hand, was erected to their Memory, by
their Daughter the Countefs of Richmond",
(who founded there a Grammar School, and
a Chantry to pray for their Souls, according to
the Cuftom of thofe Times. She likewife ordered
them to be prayed for amongft the reft of her
Royal and noble Relations, next to her Hufband
the Earl of Richmond, in her collegiate Foun-
dations at Cambridge. It is however fomewhat
Angular, that no Notice is there taken of her
third Hufband the Earl of Derby, who had pro-
vided

1 On St. Anne's Day, 26 Jul. fhe being not yet fourteen Years of
Age.

m He was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. David's,
with this Infcription upon his Monument. — Under this Marble
Stone here inclofed, relt the Bones of that noble Lord Edmund
Earl of Richmond, Father and Brother to Kings; who departed out
of this World, in the Year 1456. the firft Day of November. On
whofe Soule Almighty Jefu have Mercy. Willis's Survey, p»io, 1 i,-?o.

n This is delineated in Sandford, p. 321, but faid to be very ill
done.

K4

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vided a Tomb for himfelf and both his Wives, in
the Priory of Burfcough, where they were ordered
to be prayed for ; nor of her other Hufband, Sir
Henry Stafford.

She was born at Bletfoe, in Bedfordshire,
where fome of her curious Needlework remained
in the Time of her great Grandfon James I,
which was conftantly called for by him, when
palling through in his Progrefs0. She was uni-
verfally efteemed for her Piety, Devotion and
good Works, among!!, which are her two Col-
leges at Cambridge, St. John's and Chrilt, her
Profeffors and Preachers there, with thole at
Oxford, and various other Monuments of her
Charity and Munificence, elfwhere. She had I
prefume been a Benefactrefs to the Church of
Durham p, where fhe was admitted to a -Share of
their Prayers whilft living, as well as entitled to
the Benefit of them after her Deceafe, as will ap-
pear by the following curious Inftrument for
that Purpofe. She died III Kalends. Jul. 1509,
and an elegant Monument was erected to her
Memory in Weftminiter Abbey'1, to which (he had
been a considerable Benefactrefs, and near which

me

° Thorefby Vicar. Lecdenfis. p. 175.

p Befides hert and at Winburne, fhe was admitted into the Fra-
ternity of other Religious Koufes, viz. Weltminfter, the Charter
Houfe at London, Thorney, Depyng and Crowland.

4 Engraved in Sandford, p. 350, and likewife prefixed to her Fu-
neral Sermon by Bp. l'Hher, with the Infcription upon it drawn up
by Erafrr.us, for which he received 20 s.

[ 153 ]

(he founded an Alms-Houfe for poor Women.

Literae Sororitatis, conceflae Margaretae Henrici
VII, Regis Angliae Matri.

Omni Nobilitate et Gratia Praeditiffimae Do-
mince Dnae. Margaretae, Dei Gratia, Noftri Regis
Serenimmi Henrici Septimi Matri praedignimmae,
Sui Humiles, et Speciales Oratores devoti, Tho-
mas permiflione Divina, Prior Ecclefiae Cathe-
dralis Dunelm, et Ejufdem Loci Conventualis
Caetus omnino dant Reverentiales Honores, et
per Orationum Suffragia Gaudia confequi fell-
citer aeterna. Gratiociftimae, Affecluocitlimaeque
Veftrae Devotionis integritas praeexcelfa erga Glo-
riofum Confefforem S. Cuthbertum, Noftrum
Patronum ejufdemque Dunelmenfe Monafterium
haclenus per Longa temporum Curricula Eviden-
tiflime praeexperta; nee ut pie credimus, hue
ufque intercifa, fed potius Studiis continuata be-
nevolis per Votiva et Felicia Meritorum incremen-
ta, nos merito excitat, et inducit, ut juxta Piif-
fimum veftrae Devotionis affectum, Gratiilimam
quam poflumus Spiritualis Viciflitudinis recom-
penfationem rependere Studeamus. Quocirca vef-
tram Infigniffimam et Honorabiliflimam, fi pla-
ceat, Perfonam, in Spiritualem Sororem Noftri
Dunelmenfis Capituli admittimus per Praefentes;
ac quantum in Nobis eft, et Divinis credimus
convenire Beneplacitis, omnium MifTarum, Je-

juniorum,

[ '54 ]

juniorum, Orationum, Predication urn, et Divi-
norum Officiorura, caeterorumque Pietatis ope-
rum, quae per Nos et SuccefTores Noftros tarn
in prasfecto Monafterio noftro, quam in cun-
c~Hs Cellis ad idem Spectantibus impraefentiarum,
fimiliter aut in futurum fient j realem et inte-
gram concedimus Participationem in perpetuum.
Et ex fuperabundante, et fingulari Caritatis Af-
feclu, quern ad Vos non immerito nunc geri-
mus, promittimus et pollicemur, quod cum ab
hoc Solo, nequam per inevitabilis Mortis debi-
turn, Divina Vos vocaverit Providentia, et hoc
certitudinaliter Nobis fuerit intimatum, pro vo-
bis in Quotidiana Capitulari Mifla ad Maximum
Altare celebranda, Veftram Specialem, et Nomi-
natam Memoriam faciemus, ac pro Vobis, ficut
pro Noftri Ordinis Fratribus Defunctis, Con-
fueta Orationum Suffragia Perpetuis Tempori-
bus perfolvemus. In Cujus Rei Teftimonium
Sigillum Noftrum Commune Praefentibus eft
Appenfum. Datae in Domo Noftra Capitulari, — ■
Die Menfis Anno 1502.

Fundatrici Vota, T.B.

Accipe Fundatrix grati pia vota Nepotis,

/Equa tuis meritis fors inimica negat.

O fi! quas cupio, vires mihi Fata dederunt,

Clarior Elogiis Fcemina nulla foret.

At tua Progenies vivet, nafcentur Alumni,

Fli tibi plaudentes, Carmina digna ferent.

INDEX.

N D E X.

A.

ADAMS, Dr. 79

Ames, J of. 52

Anitis, John Letter to B. 65,66,

136.
Arundel's Apology
Afcham, Roger
Afheton, Arch,
Audley, Dr

Ayloffe, Dr.

Bacon, Ld.
Bagnal, Jo.
Balfham, H.
Baker, Win
Grey

B.

5°

93,142
109
109

BP.

S3
109

»35

Dr. Letters to Dr,
66,67,1 1 1

Geo. Knt. 2,93,102,141

Geo. 2, &c. 2,84,88,90

Lett, to Dr. G. 91, 9Z, 134.
102

134

Birth, 1,2.

ib. Degree

Chapl. 4.

Refigns, 7.

8. Lett, to

Fran.

— Ferdinand

Tho. B. D.

School, 3. Coll.
ib. Orders ib.
Long Newton, 5.
Returns to Coll.
Bp. Watfon, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Reflect, on Learning, 14. Mi-
Hake rectified, 16. Pref. to
Fifhcr's Serm. 20,21. Athen.
Cantab. 28, 20, 3c, 31. Re-
marks on Burnet, 33. Ejected,
34. Annuity, 37, 38. Con
tent, 39. Lett to Hearne, 43.
— to Strype, 56,57. — to Dr.
Grey, 63,64,60,68. — to Cook
and Print, 70; 1,2,3,4,— to Dr.

Grey, 79,81, 82. Will, 83.
Death, 84. Fidure, 86, ic6.
Monument, 92, Funeral, 93.
Character, 94, &c. Obierva-
tions on Books, 101. Friends,
J08, ! 12, 1 13, 114, 115, 1 16.
Defence of, 117,118,119. So-
liloquy, 121, 122. Letter to
Strype, 132. Will, &c. 139,
142.

Bale, John
Ballard. Mr.
Bancroft, ABp.
Barrow, Ifaac Dr.
Baro, Pet. Dr.

Sam. M.D.

■ Andr.

Barbeyrac,
Barwick, Dr.
Batman, Stephen
Beauchamp, John
Beaumont, Dr.
Beaufort, John D,

■ Margaret Dut

Bedford, Hilk.

Dr. 79, So

Grey, 89,90,91.
Bennet, Dr.
Mr.

Benfon

Beveridge, Dr.
Billers, John
Blackwood, Ad.
Bois, Joh. Life
Bofwell, Jo.
Bouchier, Mr.
Bovvyer, Mr.

78
6>
57

67,i27,&c.
i3°>i

*3*
1 1 0, 1 1 1

49
125

150

109
149,50
150,51

49
Lett, to Dr.

76
105

82

4i

33>98>99>Jco

68

5°

23

146
Brinkley,

INDEX.

Brinkley, Rett. 14

Bradford, Dr. 99

Brand's Burton Reft. 14.

Bull, Bp. 105

Burnett, Bp. Lett, to B. 31, 2, 3,

119, 135.

Burrough, Sir Jam. 116,135

Burleigh, Ld. 59
Burton, Rich. 37, 84. Lett, to Dr.

G. 85, &c. 91,92,135,6.

C.

Caius, Dr. Arms 65

Calamy, Edm. 75

Camden. Will. 81
Camb. Univ. 56,83,86,136,8

Carteret, Ld. _ 107

Carter's Camb. 49

Cattle, Edm. 118

Caxton, 50,76

Chrift Coll. 44,45

Cicero, Life of 112

Clarke, Mr. 93->H2

Claypoole, Eliz. H7»8

Clarence, Dut. of 149

Coins 102

Cole, Will. 67,93,142

■ SirNic, 2

Cook, Mr. 69, &c

Corbett, Dr. 85,135

Cornwallis, Sir Char. 69

Cofin, Bp. 135

Cottcn, bir Rob. 143,4,5,6

Courayer, Path. 5~,&c.58

Cowel'l, Dr. 68

Crew, Bp. 5,6,7

Creone, Pet. 7>8>9

Crow, Mr. 89,91,2

Cromwell, Oliv. 82

-Joan 147

• Rich. ib.

Culmer 76

Cutler, Dr 41,2

D.
Dickens, Dr. 41, 67,85, ic8,&c.

■35-

• Mr. Broth. 109

.nniDroie

Dorfet, E.
Drake, Dr.
Durham

97>

1 1 1

144

5 +
152

E.
Eliz. Qn. at Camb.
Erafmus defend.

16,

17,48

,68
>49

Faernus, Gabr. 72

Penner 135

Fenny Stratford Chap. . 06

Fiftier, Bp. Serm. 18,19. Xter.

20, &c. 26.

Field, Bp. 144

Forbes, Dr. 78,9
Poller, Thomas and Margaret 2

Pulborn Reft.

G.

Gibfon, Bp.
Glaftonbury Hill.
Gloucelt. Chron.
Goddard, Pet. Dr.
Fran.

13

117

4+

44

120

131

134
95

Godwyn, Bp.

Green, John Bp.

Grey, Zach. Dr. Lett, to 40,57,

84,85. Xter 1 16,135.
Guntoa 136

H.

Harbyn, Geo.

Hartnian, Sched.

Hardwick, Ld.

Platton, Sir John

Platcher, Dr.

Hatcher, Dr.

Hearne, 'Pho. 30,43,46,47,64',

65,117.
Pleberden, Will. M. D. 8g. 9c,

1 16.
Hemingius Poem 40

Henry VII 18,20,150,152

Pr. of Wales 09

Hefiod 69,71

Hoadly, Bp. ^9

Hulling bed 22,3

I. Jamei,

27 "fl

44>i^3^4

79

84

119

119

INDEX.

J-

James, Dr. 109

James, II 97 .8,9

Jenkin, Dr. 22. Lett. 23, 4, 5,

34-

Johnfon, Beni. 74
John's St. Houfe 19
College 8,13,74,83,6,91

Books 94,.
Jones, Edw. Bp.
Jortin, Dr.

K.
Kennet, White Bp.
Lett, to B.
Kettle, Mr.
Knight, Sam. Dr.

84,135.

Lanchciter, 2. Augment, 103,136

Newcaftle,

Nichols, Joh.

Marq.

O.

12

17,18,118

39,60

61,120,136

64

48,57,59,62

1,2

Z
67

144
82

36

100

1 1

Lc Clerc
Lee, Nath.
Leke, Rob. B.D.
Leonard, Monfieur
Letherland, Dr.
Lewis, John 63,74.

Grey 75,6,8.
Linwood
Lloyd, Bp.
Locke, John
Lunn, Will.

M.

i6,&c.48

74

>»5

142

79
Lett to Dr.

»3S

98

18,118

64

Oldfworth, Mr.
Onflow, Arth.
Orford, Ld.
Otway, Dr.
Oxenden, Dr.
OxfordHarley25, 27, 80,8 1,83,86
Xter 106,7,8, f20, 134.
P.
Pamphlets, Coll. of 28

Parker, ABp. 54»5 5^3,77, 1 35

47
136

40,81
70

13S

132
144

»»5

130

H3»4

78

120

H5

73
44>5

Maddox, Bp. 68

Mattaire, Mich. 107
Middleton, Con. Dr. 42,3,50,07

72,1 : 2,1 1 5, 1 36.

Milton, John 82

Monfon, Hen. LL.D. 116

Montague, Char. 102

Morley, Sir John 2

N.

Neale, Dan. 68,75

Nelfon, Rob. 105
Ncwcome, Dr. 43 and Wife 1 1 5

1 3 5 •

Newton, Sir Ifaac 73,119

long ^ 5,6,7,130

Newton, Sir A. lain 145

Parr, Cath. Lett!
Patrick's Hift.
Peck, Fran.
Pembroke, Ld. Death
Perkins
Perne, Dr.
Perfe, Dr.
Peyton, Henry
Playfere, Dr.
Pory, Mr.
Poynet, Bp.
Prior, Matt.
Puckering, Sir Tho.
Pulleyn, Mr.
Pulton, Ferdin.

R.
Rawlins, Mr.
Rawlinion, Dr.
Richardfon, Tho. Dr.

— Will. Dr. 30,31,51,81

Richmond, Co. of 8,135,14a

3C46.7
20,52, 65

69

1 50,2

E. of

Robertfon, Will. Dr.
Robinfon, Tancred Dr.
Roper, Fran.
Rymer's Feed.

Sanderfon, Bp.
Scholarfhips
Scot's Camb.
Scots Qu. of
Scougall, Bp.

S.

150,1
79
71
25
73

109

102
28

68

92

Sharpe,

INDEX.

Sharpe, ABp.
Sherlock, Bp.
Sheperfon, Marg.
Shorton, Dr.
Simon, f.

Father

Si/Ton, Hen.
Smallridge, Bp.
Smith's Obit.

John Dr. 47,8.

125, &c.

99
1 17
136

'35
100

16

23

99

. 5°
Epitaph

. . Tho. Dr. 47.

■' George

Somerfet,Char. D. ti,

John

Spelman, Sir Hen.
Sprot's Chron.
Stafford, Sir Hen.
Stanly, Ld.
Stephens, Robt.
Strype, John
Symfon, Dr.

T.
Tanner, John
Taverner, Rich. Bible
Tenet, Antiq. of
Tholofates, Andreas
Thomafius, Tho.
Tunftall, Ja. Dr.
Tindal, Dr.
Turner, Fran.

V.
Vantrollier, Tho.
Vertue, Jam.

Catal. jo 1

1*4
72,3,132,3

117

144

43

<?i

'5'

14S

56,67, 1 3 1

130

27,8,80

75»6
146

W.

Wake, ABp. 53,4,5,77,120,135
Walpole, Hor. 106

Walker, Ant. Dr. 31,50

Walton, Bp. 118

Wanley, Humph, 24,5,6. Ei-

bles, 27.
War burton, Bp.
Ward, Jo. Dr.
Warasus

Warren, Will. Dr.
I VVaterland, Dr.
Watfon, Tho. Bp. Lett, to B. 4^

9, Sec.

-Will. Bro.

Weft, Ja. Letter to Dr. G.

Weymouth, Ld.

Wh'alley, jo. Dr.

Whifton, Will. o8_

Whichcote, Sir Paul Lett. 3>>&c

Willis, Browne Dr. 49,59,66

Dtrs. 6j.
Williams, Dan. 53,4,8
Phil. Dr. 85,6.— Lett.

S'

52
114

»35

108

52
64,106

94
S*

'34
84,115

63»4>'43

3'4

So
22
69
,q,ioo

^,113,136,142.
Bp.

144

'34

'34

Winburne, Minft.

Winwood

Wolfey, Card.

Wood, Anth. 30,1,6,46,65,81,

'35-

Wotton, Will. Dr. 33

Wren, Mat. Bp. Si

F I

ERRATA.

In Memoirs.

Page 13. line laft but one, for agreed read argued.
46. 1. if, for Fernando read Ferdinando.
52. I. 1. for Preftendis, read Praeitandis.

83. 1. I 5. for Jan. read Jun.

84. 1. 22. for 1741, ™W 1740.
107. 1. 1 1. for fharer, read ihare.
117. I.4. infert had.

120. 1. i.N. D. &c. mould follow Period in 1. 2d, p. 119.
128. 1. 5. for retournament, read retournant.

at bottom, read le,for la.

135. 1. 14. after and, add to.

In Catalogue.

Page II. V. Vin, N. IV. for 1392, read 1292.
17. N. XT. St. before David.
20. N. p. fl/?tr Monmouth, read printed,
28. N. c. belongs to Peacock.
42. I.7. read Prioriflle.
45. N. XVII. Chronicorum.
70. N. i. Sarilburianum.
79. 1. 22. read 1 iqz.for 139}.
89. XII. I. 3. readQu ? for Quae.

ACADEMIC CANTABRIGIENSI

MATRI SV JE BENE MERENTI

HUNC CATALOGUM MSS.

THOMJE BAKERI, S.T.B.

PIGNUS

GRATI ANIMI ET OBSERVANTI^E SUiE

DAT, DICAT, DEDICATCLUE

FILIUSVEREDEVOTUS

R. MASTERS, S.T.B.

A

CATALOGUE

O F

Mr. THOMAS B A K E R's

MS. COLLECTIONS,

N.B. The fir ji Twenty- three Volumes of the following Col-
lections, given and bequeathed to Lord Oxford by Mr. Baker*
were -pur chafed vnth that Earl's other MSS. for the BritifJi
Mufeum, and are now depofited there : where, if the Edi-
tor could either have found leifure, or fome Friend in Town
to have perufed them, a more fatisfatlory Account of them
might have been given ; yet as the only one hitherto publiflied,
is in the Harleian Catalogue *, Books too large to come into
common ufe, he thought it might be of fome Jervice to prefix
that, imperfetl as it is, to the Catalogue of the fubfequent Vo-
lumes given to the Univerfity of Cambridge, and of which
(having had an opportunity of turning them over, by the fa-
vour of a late Vicechancellor) he hopes to give a more parti-
cular Account, than has been hitherto done -f. By this the
whole will be cotnpleated in afmall compafs, ready to be con-
fulted by fuch as may have occafion to have recourfe to them.
To thefe are added, fuch Dates as could readily be come at,
which may render fuch a Catalogue more ufeful : and a few
Notes at the bottom^ in relation to what has been printed, &c.

* Vol.11. No. 7028.

f See that in Biograph. Brltan. under the article Baker.

CATALOGUE-

VOL. I.

THE Hiftory of St. John's College, from the Foun-
dation of old St. John's Houfe to the prefent time-,
with fome occafional and incidental Account of the
Affairs of the Univerfity, and of fuch private Colleges
as held Intercourfe or Communication with the Old-
Houfe or College. Collected principally from MSS. and
carried on, through a SuccefTion of Mailers, to the end
of Bp. Gunning's Mafterfhip in 1670.

N.B. This is the onlyWork Mr. Baker left behind him
drawn up for Publication, and is well deferving of it.
Other Particulars relating to this College, may be feen
in the fubfequent Volumes XII. XXI. No. 18. XXII.
No. 10. and XXIII.

VOL. II.

I. Controverfia et Cenfura Mri. Barret, una cum Con-

troverfia Petri Baronis*, S.T.P. ex Codice MS. Coll.

<Trin. Cant, olim Joan. Whitgifc Archiep. Cant. p. 1.

to 103.
J I. Catalogus Benefactorum qui Libros Bibliothecas

Publican Cantabrigice contulerunt. p. 103.
III. Difciplina Eccleiise facr^E ex Dei Verbo defcripta,

a r/10.

3 Lady Margaret's ProfefTor of Divinity. He refigned in 1596, and
was fuccecded by Dr. PUnfere Fellow of St. Johns College,

A 2

[ 4 ]

a Tho. Cartwright &c. ex MS. Joan. Laughton Ca-
non. Wigon. et Lichf. p. 115.

IV. Mifcellanea ad Aulam Clarenfem fpcclantia. p. 133.

V. Bp. Overall b Opinion of the five Points, &c. p.2CO.

VI. De Cuftodibus et Sociis Pembrochianis> Auctore
Mat thao Wren, p. 207.

VII. Statuta Aula Trinitatis Cantabrigia, defumpta ex
Libro originali, una cum Sratutis Subfundatorum
ejufdem. p. 335.

VI If. Statuta Collegii Lincolnienfis Oxon. data a Thoma
Rotheram Epifcopo Lincoln, fecundo Fundatore, ex
MS. in Bibliotheca Publica Cantab, p. 477.

IX. Extracts from Wills, taken from the Regifter of
the Archdeacon of Richmond, p. 503.

X. A Catalogue of fome Particulars in Mr. Tabor's Book.
Regifter of the Univerfity c. p. 507.

XI. Commemoratio Benefaclorum Acaderrrias Canta-
brigtenfts, in Latin and Englifh. p. 515.

XII. Teftamenta Joannis Knight bridge S.T. P. Wilhelmi
Butler M. D. Jofephi Mede, Coll. Chrifti Socii, Wil-
helmi Perkins, una cum Epitaphiis quibufdam memo-
rabilibus. p. 525.

XIII. The Scholarfhips of Lord Craven's Foundation,
with the manner of Election to them. p. 537 \

XIV. Some Particulars concerning the Families of
North of Cartleige, Hinde of Maddingley, and Steward
of TevtrJJiam. p. 539.

V O L. III.

I. Vita Johan. Fi/Jier Epifcopi Roffenfts, ex Codice MS.
Doetoris Gale Decani Ebor. p. 1.

II. The Funeral Sermon of King Henry VII. with Let-
ters to Bp. Fijher. p. 207.

III. The

0 He w.1.3 rranfiated from Lichfield to Norwich in 1618, and died
In the year following.

'■ Sec M-aflcH' H5ft. of C. C. C C. p. 386.

[ 5 1

III. The Life of Sir Thomas Morec by his Son in Law
William Roper, from a MS. in the Library of the Uni-
verfity of Cambridge, p. 231.

IV. An Account of Sir Thomas More's Life wrote by
others, or in other Libraries, with fome Particulars
concerning Dr. Thomas Harding ii and Topcliff a Spy
upon the Pap ills. p. 301.

V. Wills or Extracts of Wills, ab anno 1557 ad an. 1596,
ex RegiftroTeitamentorum Academise Cantab. p-307t

et 339-

VI. Decreta, Inflrumenta et Acta publica, defumpta ex

Regiltro Academiae Cantab, cui Titulus, Caufse
Acad, publics, ab ann. 1549 ad an. 1589. p. 349.

VII. Literae tranfcripts, ex Libro Oracoris Publici
Acad. Cant. p. 403 et 457.

VIII. Catalogus Priorum, Decanorum et Prebend. Ec-
clefias IVigornenfis. p. 469.

IX. Several Particulars relating; to the Churches, In-
ductions, Incumbents, &c. in the Diocefe of Ely. p.

5°7-

X. Letters to Mr. Selden, with fome which pafled be-
twixt the D. of Somerfet* late Chancellor, and Dr.
Lany Vicechancellor in 1707. p. 545.

VOL. IV.

I. Letters and other Particulars concerning King's Col-
lege, p. 1.

II. > 'Trinity Col-
lege, p. 41.

III. Letters

c Qucre? Whether this or the following, be the Life printed in
Rcper's name by Tbamas Hearne in 1716, with this Title, Gulielmi
Roperi Vita D. Thomze Mori Equitis Aurati. Lingua Anglicana
contexta.

: He changed his Religion in Queen Mary's Reign: See Wood's
Athen. Oxon. V. I. p. 17 v

" He was Chancellor of the Univerfity of Cambridge from i638 to

«r48.

a3

t 6 ]

III. Letters and other Particulars concerning (Thrift Col-
lege, p. 63.

IV. ' Corpus Xti

College, p. 99.

V. . ■ <TrinityHall.

p. 125.369.

VI. . ■ 1 PeterHoufe.

p. 147.

VII. ■ ■ Pembroke

Hall. p. 169.

VIII. . ■ Queen's Col-
lege, p. 179.

IX. Sidney Col-
lege, p. 193.
~v

- Magdalen

College, p. 197.

XI. : — ■ '■ Gonvil and

Caius College, p. 119,211.

XII. Anglorum Heliades, Auctore Johanne Baleo Anglo
Oiforienfis apud Hibernos Epi. p. 247.

XIII. Ex Joan. Balei MS. de viris illuitribus Anglicas
nationis excerpta quzedam. p. ^jj.

XIV. Letters from or concerning the Earl of North-
ampton, Chancellor in 161 1. p. 363.

VOL. V.

I. Statuta Antiqua Academic Cantab, p. r.

II. Statuta Edvardi fexti Regis, defumpta ex nigro Co-
dice Acad. p. 1 1 1.

II]. Indenture between the Univerfity and the Executors
of Mr. John Mere, concerning Houfes given to the
Univerfity. p. 127.

IV. Commemoratio Johannis Mere Bedelli f, cum modo
procedendi, &c. p. 127.

V. Statuta per Vifitatores edita, anno Regni Elizabeth*
prinu, ec injunCtiones Acad. Cant. prcfcriptre, de-
fumpta

' Sec Meiers' Hift. of Corp. Chrifti Coil. Append, p. 46.

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fumpta ex Libro Statutorum in Domu Regentium.

P. "33-
VJ. Decreta editaet promulgata in plena Congregatione

&c. 1562. ex MS. C. C. C. C. cui Titulus, Statuta

Acad. Cant? p. 167.

Vlf. Formula Monitionis et Sentencia Bannitionis Gu-

lielmi Whifion^ A. M.h, &c. in 1710.

VIII. King James's Patent for the Rectories of Sotner-

fham and Terrington, given to the Univerfity.

A Proof that it hath Ecclefiaftical Jurifdiction, p. 179.
185. — Gratia ne idem fit Procancellarius et Archi-
diaconus vel Officialis ElienJisK p. 177.

IX. Statuta vetera Domus Sandti Petri Cantab. Decla-
rationes, Ordinationes, &c. p. 187.

X. Statuta Collegii de Merton. Oxon. p. 229.

XI. Mifcellanea qua^dam circa Domum Sti Petrit viz.
de Hugone de Balfham, de Fratribus Penitentise, de
Gualtero Curie, de Confecratione Capellse, de Admif-
fione Praefeclorum. — Literse Stephani Gardineri Epif-
copi Wintonienfrs, Sec. p. 242.

XII. Articuli in Synodo Londinenfi 1562, ex originali
in Coll. Corp. Cbrifti Cant.k p. 251.

XIII. Collectiones ex MS. Codicibus Coll. Caii et
Gonv. viz. Injunctiones Regime an. 1535. — Proceffus
in Cafu Matrimonii Regis Hen. VIII. et Catharine
Reginae 1533. — Foundation of the Abby of Gloucef-
ter, &c. — Dimenfio Ecclefiae Cathedralis Sti Pauli.—
Abbates Sti Albani1, Juramentum Abbatis. — Tefta-
mentum Regis Henrici VI. — ■ Confirmatio Terras de
Syon. — Replication to the Claim of the Duke of York.

to

s See Na/mitb's Catal. CXVIII. p. 171.

h He had been Fellow of Clare Hall and was Lucajian Profeflbr of
Mathematics, when expelled for reviving the Arrian Hcrefy.

> See in Vol.XXXlIl. an Order confirming this in 1712. but this
has been iince fuperfeded.

k See Nafmith's Catal. Synodalia, p. 192, 5.
J See Brown Willis Mitred Abbots, p. 11, 12,

A4

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to the Crown. — * Oratio Johan. Stokys Orator. PubL
Cantab. <kc — Reconciliatio Capellas profanatas. ■ — ■
Interdicluai Ecclefise de South Mailing, p. 273.

XIV. Memorandums of Dr. Barwick, about the Bifhop-
ricks of Hereford and Norwich, p. 315.

XV. Statuta et Ordinationes Aulae de Clare, p. 319.

XVI. Mifcellanea nonnulla deEcclefiaElienfi. p.36 1 .4 1 3.

XVII. Catalogus Decanorum et Canonicorum Coll. de
Winfor™ per Thomam Frith, ex MSS. Barlovian.
Continuatio ejufdem per Geo. Evans, p. 379. 403.

XVI I I. Chartae et Compofitiones, &c. Epifcoporum et
Archidiaconorum Elienfium, ex nigroCodice ElienfL
p. 41 3. adduntur Statuta quaedarn excufa Cantab.

XIX; Conftructiones quorundam Monafteriorum.

V O L. VI.

I. Particulars concerning Corp. Chrifti Coll. Cantab,
p. .4. 36.

II. -i Sidney College, p. 44.

III. ■ Jefus College, p. 50.

IV. . , Emanuel College, p. 6g.

V. An Account of the feveral Colleges, with the Names
of the Fellows, Scholars, &c. when Queen Elizabeth
was ac Cambridge in 1564, with Dr. Perne's Latin
Sermon, p. 94.

VI. Of the Acts done at Oxford when Queen Elizabeth
was there-, collected and noted by Nicholas Robin-
fon, afterwards Bp. of Bangor n, who drew up the like
Account for Cambridge, p. 131.

VII. Another Account of the Queen's Reception at
Oxford in 1566 by Richard Stephens, from Mr. Neale
the Hebrew Reader's Papers, p. 139.

VIII. Papers relating to the Univerlity of Cambridge,

viz.

m Sec Potc's Hiilory and Antiquities of Windfor, p 409. Le Neve's
Fafti, p. 375.

" 1566, ob 1584,

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viz. the Submiffion of the Univerfity to Cardinal
Wolfey 1524. — Submiffion to the King, and re-
nouncing of the Pope 1535. — - Dilorders in the UnU
verfity in 1536. — Reafons for a Royal Vifitation. —
Reafons for the Univerfity's being exempt from a
Metropolitan Vifitation, with fome Letters of ABp.
Laud, and his Anfwer in fupport of his Power of
Vifuing. — Reafons and Authorities alfo to that pur-
pofe from MSS. of Lord Chief Juftice Hale. p. 145.

IX. Letters from Dr. Cofin to Mr. Gunning, p. 174.

X. concerning Cambridge, p. .180.

XI. Proceedings againit fome factious Offenders at
Cambridge, p. 185.

XII. Wills and Extracts of Wills from 1500 to 1559%
from the Publick Regiiler Book of the Univerfity of
Cambridge, p. 200.

XIII. Letters of the Martyrs, &c. e MS. Eman. Coll.
Cant. p. 240.

XIV. An Hiftorical Account of the Univerfity and
Colleges of Cambridge in Latin, fuppofed to be writ-
ten by Dr. Fuller, eMS. Coll. Jef. Cant. p. 255.

XV. Letters to the Bp. of Lincoln concerning King's
College, where he is Vifitor. p. 292.

XVI. A Continuation of Bifhop Wren's Account of the
Mailers and Fellows of Pembroke HallP, by Mr. Ac-
wood Fellow of the College, p. 295.

XVII. CommifTions, Articles, Inquiries, &c. concern-
ing the Diocefe of Ely, with a Catalogue of the Bi-
fhops, Advocates and Proctors therein, p. 318.

XVIII. Articles to be fubfcribed, publifhed by ABp.
Whitgift. p. 327. — K. of Scot's Lett, to the Queen

r l59\- P-323-

XIX. The Recantations of the Bifhops of Dunkeld and
Orkney, &c. p. 329.

XX. Collections from Mr. Camden's MSS. Coll. Trim
Cant. p. 340.

XXI. Two
Sec above V. III. N. V. p See above V. II. N. VI.

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XXI. Two Letters or Petitions of Laurence Humfrey
to the Queen and Bifhops. p. 351.

XXII. An Account of the Articles printed in Latin in
1563% with the Names of the Subfcribers in 1571.

P-354-
XXI) I. The Anfwer of the Vicechancellor and Senate
of Cambridge, for not admitting Alban Francis to the
Degree of A. M. according to the Mandate of King
James II. p. 358.

XXIV. Particulars to be offered, for the Confirmation
of Parliament, p. 360.

XXV. Two Letters from the Bp. of St. Afaph, and one
from the ABp. of Canterbury to Dr. Gower r, and one
from the Bp. of Ely about the Declaration of King
James for Liberty of Conicience in j 68 8. p. 361, 2.

V O L. VII.

I. Collectiones ex Regiftro Aulas S. Catherine, p. 1.

II. . — ex duobus veteribus Regiftris olim ad

conventum Elienlem pertinentibus, et MSS. Pucker-
ing- P- 53-

III. Statuua Aulas Pembrokianas Cantab, p. 124. Con-

fecrat. Capellas, Gravamina quasdam, Fundatio et
Status ejuidem. p. 142.

IV. Catalogi Decanorum,&c. quarund. Ecclefiarum,&c.
p. 194.

V. Orationes Funebres, Vitas, Epitaphia, &c. p. 352.

VI. The Marriage of the Princefs Mary, 2 May, 1641.
— Copies of fome original Letters, &c. — A Narra-
tive ot Blud's Attempt on the Crown. — Heads of an
Expedient in lieu of the Bill of Exclufion. — Cha-
racters of Henry D. of Norfolk, Daniel E. of Not-
tingham, Sydney Ld. Godolphin, John Marquis of

Nor-

1 See above V. V. N. X.

r Then Matter of St. John's College and Lady Margaret's Pro-
feflbr of Divinity.

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Normanby, as entered in the Herald's Office by the
D. of Norfolk, p. 422.

VII. Sarah Cant's Account of her Son cured by Bp. Ken.
p. 424.

VIII. Papers and Letters concerning the E. of Strafford,
&c. p. 446.

V O L. VIII.

I. Literas et Orationes attingentes Hiftoriam et Statum
Acad. Oxon. p. 1.

II. Statutum, five Actum Parliamenti indicans Univ.
Oxon. efie fubjectam Vifitationi Archiep. Cantuar.
p. 123.

III. Chartae nonnullse Hen. II. de Libertatibus Villas
Oxon. p. 131.

IV. Ordinatio Vicarise de Gamlingay in Com. Cant.'
tempore Wilhelmi de Luda Epi. Eliens. 1392. ex
Regift. Epi. Eliens. p. 137.

V. P. Candidi Decembris Epiftolse ad Ducem Gloceftriae
de nova Traductione Platonis Politiae. p. 141.

VI. The Order of Oxford in choofing their Chancellor
in 1608. — Item Literse et Inttructiones. — . Tefta-
mentum S. Sydenham, p. 155.

VII. Literse Script® Wilhelmo (Laud) Epo. London,
poftea Archiep. Cantuar. 1632. p. 167.

VIII. A Letter from Cardinal Wolfey to K. Hen.VIII,
p. 174.

IX. Particulars from a MS. called, Evangelical Fruit
of the Seraphical Francifcan Order, written by P. N.
Archibald Capucin. p. 177.

X. Inftruclions given to the Lord Prefident in the
North, with the Oath, Fees, &c. of aCouncellor there,
and the Names of fome Lord Prefidents and Coun-
cilors, p. 193.

XI. The Copy of a Diipenfation from Cardinal Pool.—
Two Letters in Italian, one from Alberic Gentilis, the
other from Benedetto Spinola. p. 217.

XII. An

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XII. An Account of the Death of Walter E. of ElTex,
1576. p. 219. _

XIII. A Tranicript of feveral ancient Records, out of
Doomfday and other Books in the Exchequer, p. 231.

XIV. No Foreft, Chace or Park in the time of the Sax-
ons, p. 279.

XV. Talbot's Notes upon the Itinerary, as far as con-
cerns Britain, ex MS. Coll. Caii et Gonv. p. 281.

XVI. A Letter of Pope Clement VII. to ABp. Warham,
Dat. 18 Nov. 1525. p. 315.

XVII. An Account of the King of Portugal's Expedi-
tion in 1578. p. 317.

XVIII. The Genealogy of the Family of Groves in
Bucks, Wilts and Kent. p. 319.

VOL. IX.

I. Liber Memorandorum Ecclefiae Conventualis da
Barneweile, fcriptus circa an. 1298. 26 Edv. I.8 p. 1.

II. Acts and Inflruments from the Univerfity Black
Book, viz. A Decree concerning the Lady Margaret's
Reader and Preacher, 153. — Henry VII. Dirge, &c.
156. — Tho. Barrow, LL.D. 167. — Of the Submii-
iion of the Mayor of Cambridge to the Vicechancellor,
1524. p. 168. of which there is a MS. Copy in Trin.
Coll. Library. — Statuta Acad. Cantab, ab Edvardo
VI. data, una cum Decretis et Injunctionibus Vifita-
torum. p. 171.

III. Notes concerning God's-Houfe * and Chrift College,
from a MS. of Mr. Michael Honeywood, Socius ele-
ctus 1 618, containing many Particulars of the Foun-
dation,

s Probably the Leidger Book, now in the Britiih Mufeuin, for-
merly belonging to Mr. H agger of" Bourne. See Catal. N. 3001. p
81. Ch. 142. which Leland and Camden feem to have made ufe of

1 Situated near the Place where King's College old Buildings now
ftand. There fecms to have been another tdoufe of this Name in
Trumoin. ton Street, the Remains of which are ftill vifible onpo/lte
.Ku.<j s LyU. Lodge.

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dation, Benefactions, Statutes and Vifitations of the
College, p. 209.
IV. Donatio Abbatias de Creke. p. 231. — Admiflionsof
Tho. Otway, Jo. Milton, Rob. Raymond, Laur. Ea-
chard, &c— Donations from Honey wood and others,
to the end.

V O L. X.

I. 2KEAETOS Cantabrigienfis, una cum Catalogo Epif-
coporum Cantabrig. ex Codice MS. R. Parker Coll.
Caii et Gonv. Socius u. p. 1.

II. Cambridge Orders concerning Q. Elizabeth's En-
tertainment there, ex MS. Johan. Cofin Epifcopo
Dunelmenfi w. p. 77.

III. Catalogus Cancellariorum Academiae Cant, ex ve-
teri quadam Tabula defumptus, et continuatus ufque
ad an. 1700. p. 145.

IV. Catalogus Oratorum Cantab, ex Libro Oratoris
Publ. p. 147.

V. MS. Tables in Sidney College by John Scott*, p. 151V

VI. Commentarii Rerum Geftarum Cantabrigian cum
Regina Elizabetha in illam venerat, ex MS. D. Evans
Coll. Regal. SocJ p. 181.

VII. K. Edward VI. 's Vifitation of the Univerfity,
with other Particulars, p. 233.

VIII. A Collection of Letters and Papers of the Queens

Mary

u Written in Latin 1622, By R. P. fon of the Archdeacon of Ely,
and publifhed in the fame Language by Tho. Hearne in Leland's
Collectanea; and not long fince tranflatcd and publifhed by T.
Warner, fans date, with the following Title, The Hijicry and Anti-
quities of the Uni'ver/fty of Cambridge, &c. and a fubfequent Edition
with Additions in 1721. Svo.

w Printed in Peck's Defiderata Curiofa. V.II. Lib. VII. N. XV.
p. 25, &c.

x He publifhed like Tables of all the Colleges in the Univerfity.

>' Sec Nic. Robinfon, V. VI. N- VI. above.

i

Mary and Elizabeth, Cardinal Poole, Lord Burghley,
the E. of Leicefter, &c. from a MS. of Dr. Gale, p
247.

IX. Reafons for the Univerfity of Cambridge being ex-
empt from Epifcopal and Archiepifcopal Jurifdiction
and Vifitation2, ex MS. Dr. Gale et Jo. Cofin. p.312.

X. Tractatus varii de Antiquitate Acad. Cantab, ex
MSS. Dr. Gale et Jo. Cofin. p. 317.

XI. The Petition of the Town of Cambridge to be
made a City, ex Archivis Coll. Johan. p. 331.

XII. The Foundation of the Publick Schools. — An-
nates Acad. Cant. — Status Ciftarum. — Aulas Can-
tabrigian. — Status Collegiorum, ex MS. Coll. C. C.

P-337-

XIII. Letters, Injunctions, Orders, &c. from the King,
our Chancellor or others, from the Publick and Col-
lege Regifters, Orator's Book, &c. p. 351.

XIV. Tabula Sidneiana, five Hiftoria Coll. Sidney, ex
Adverfariis Jo. Sherman3, p. 413.

XV. Liters Academias Francofurt. ad Viadrum ad
Acad. Cantab, p. 423.

XVI. The Life of Mr. John Boisb by Anth. Walker:
p. 447-

V O L. XI.

I. Catalogues of Chancellors, Profeffors, &c. p. 1.

II. Degrees of Doctors, Matters of Arts, &c. ab an.
1500 ad an. 1659. p. ^^.

III. Vita etMors Wilhelmi Batemanc Epi. Norwic. ob.

1354- P- ll5-

IV. A Catalogue of Heads, Fellows, Scholars, &c.

1727. p. 121.

V. A

* See above V. VI. N.VIII.

a Fell, and the Hiftorian of Jefus Coll. Camb.
b Printed by Peck in Defiderata Curiofa, Vol

< Printed in Defid. Curiof. V. II. Lib. VII. p. 1.

b Printed by Peck in Defiderata Curiofa, Vol. II. Lib. VIII- p>
36.

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V. A Decree in Chancery, &rc for the Hiftory Profef-
fhip founded by Ld. Brooke, p. 123.

VI. Catalogue of Burgefies in Parliament, Arabic and
Hiftorical ProfeiTors, Bedels, &c. p. 141.

VII. Dr. Hatcher's Catalogue (continued) of Provofts,
Fellows and Scholars of King's College6, p. 151.

VIII. A Catalogue of Prefidents and Fellows of Queen's
Coll. p. 237.

IX. A Catalogue of Provofts, Fellows and School-
mafters of Eton. p. 265.

X. Particulars concerning Trinity Coll. Cant. p. 287.

XI. ■ Sidney College by Dr. Ward,

&c. p. 341.

XII. Hiltoria Coll. Jefus, with other Particulars of that
College, probably by Sherman abovementioned. p.

357-

XIII. Baptifms, Marriages and Burials from Parifh Re-
gifters, &c. p. 441.

VOL. XII.

This Volume is wholly filled with Particulars relating
to St. John's College, containing Inftruments, Tranfac-
tions, Letters, either of the Society in general, or of the
particular Matters or Fellows, with an Account of all
the Benefactions and private Endowments, from the
Foundation to the Death of D. Gower in 171 1, digeft-
ed for the moll part according to the Order of Time.

VOL. XIII.

I. Tranfcripts of Charters, Grants, Privileges, Immu-
nities, &c. to the Univerfity of Cambridge, from the
Collections of Rob. Hare, Efq; e with an Appendix,

con-

d Printed at Eton 1730 & 1774. 4to.

r Made by him at the Requeft of Dr. Copcot, Matter of C. C. C.
C. and Vjcechancellor, in three large Folio Volume?, and given to
the Univerfity in 1587.

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containing Grants and Privileges from K. James I.
p. 197.

II. A Tranfcript from Mr. Francis Hughes Book, Coll.
Trin. Cant. p. 204.

III. Collediones de Magiftro Glomeriae, e MS. C. C. C.
p. 219.

IV. De Rectoria Burwelli. p. 165, 170, 222.

V. A Letter from the Privy Council concerning Mr.
Knight's Sermon, and the burning Partus' s Bookf.
P- 225.

VI. A Note of Books given by Mr. Rob. Hare to Tri-
nity Hall. p. 227.

VII. Letters to Mr. Hare and Heneage from the Uni-
verfity. p. 235.

VIII. The Leale of Mr. Mere's Houfe granted to the
Margaret ProfeiTors. p. 231.

IX. Daver's Surrender and Grant of the Houfe and
Garden, p. 233. 239.

X. The Indenture between the Univerfity and the Exe-
cutors of Mr. Mere. p. 240.

XL DeLectura Mathematica five Lucafiana. p. 249.
XH. De Leftura Aftronomica Doctoris Plume, p. 254.
XIII. Oliver Cromwell's Charter for a College at Dur-
ham11, p. 259.

VOL. XIV.

I. Some Particulars concerning Waterbeche and Denny
in Com. Cant. p. 1.

II. Some

t A large 4to of about 900 pa^es, the exceptionable pafiages are
in the 13th Chapter, where he affirms, that the Lower Powers may
corrett the Higher, by a lawful Refiftance. It was printed at
Francfort 1608, under the Title of, In Divinam ad Romanos S-Pauli
Apoft. Epift. Comment.

s The fame wherein he now lives, in the Parilh of St. Benedict-
See Vol. V. N. III. above.

h Printed in Append, to Dr. Grey's Examination of Neale's 4th
Vol. of the Hiftory of the Puritans. N. LXV1I. p.m.

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II. Some Particulars concerning the Priory of Royfton.

. p. 5.

III. . the Church of Durham.

„ P- J3-

JV. . , the Church of St. Paul

in London, Epiicopus Puerorum, and the Eleemofi-

nary there, &c. p. 21.

V. Origo Epiicopatus Dunelm. with a Catalogue of the
Bifhops of Lindisfarn and Durham, Priors, &c. p. 25.

VI. Regula Aulas de Clare Cant. dat. 1359. p. 43.

VII. The Reception of K. James, K. Charles, the
Prince, the Palfgrave at Cambridge, with the Manner
of the Funerals of King James, Prince Henry, Drs
Whitaker, Some, Clayton, &c. p. 63.

VIII. Letters of Sir Henry Spelman, SirThomas Adams,
&c. concerning the Saxon and Arabic Lecture, with
other Particulars, to Mr. Abraham Whelock, the
firft Arabic Profeffor. p. 73.

IX. An Attempt towards a new Library, to be built be-
tween Caius College and the Regent Walk, defeated
by the Death of the D. of Buckingham, p. 117.

X. Inclofures made by feveral Colleges by Grants from
the Town. p. 119.

XI. The Bp. of David's Cafe (Watfon) as argued in the
Houfe of Lords, p. 12 r.

XII. Letters and other Inftruments concerning the Uni-
verfity of Cambridge, in the Reigns of Henry VIII.
Edward VI. Q^Mary and (^Elizabeth, p. 131. 199.

XIII. Lord Townmend's Letter to the Univerfity, on
the King's Gift of Bp. More's Library, Oct. 4, 1715.
p. 162.

XIV. The Submiflion of the Univerfity to Cardinal
Wolfey. p. 163.

XV. Licentia pro Pra?dicatore. p. 163.

XVI. An Account of what paffed in Dr. Buckmafter's
Vicechancellormip1. p. 171.

XVII. The

1 He was Fellow of King's Hall, and Vicechancellor in 1529.

B

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XVII. The PromiTe of the Univerfity, of Obedience to
the King, and to renounce the Pope and all foreign
Powers, p. 193.

XVIII. A Petition of the Bifhops to the Queen con-
cerning the Articles of 1562. p. 204.

XIX. A Tranfcript of a Paper endorfed by ABp. Laud,
concerning the 20th Article, p. 205.

XX. Matricula Inftituta 1544. Forma, et Catalogus
Admifibrum in Matriculam Acad, Cant, ad an. 1701.
p. 209.

XXI. An Exemplification of the Decree made in the
Star Chamber, 8 May, 25 Eliz. between Edwyn San-
dys, ABp. of York, and Sir Robert Stapleton, con-
cerning a foul Attempt to defame the ABp. for In-
continencyk. p. 295.

XXII. The Preamble of the ABp.'s (Sandys) Will \ very
remarkable, p. 302.

XXIII. The Examination of Mr. Henry Barrow m by
the Council in 1588. — The Copy of a Petition to the
Queen. — The Names of fundry Perfons imprifoned
by the ABp. of Canterbury and the Bp. of London.
—With an Anfwer to pretended Slanders, &c. p. 305.

V O L. XV.

I. Papers concerning Penry, Udal, Barrow, Greenwood",
Cartwright, and other Puritans, with fome original
Letters from Dr. Bancroft, T. Cartwright, and others,
ex MS. Puckering °. p. 1.

II. Let-

K Printed in Strype's Annals of Q_EIizabeth, Vol. III. Book I.

App. No. XXI.

1 Printed from hence at length, ib. Book II. App. N. LX1II. p.
248.

171 See an Account of him in Matters' Hill;, of C. C. C. C p. 227.,

* As above.

* Thr. wa- lent to Mr- Strype, who made great ufe of it,

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IT. Letters from Mr. Francis Bacon and the E. of Eflex
to the Lord Keeper Puckering, concerning the Solli-
citorfhip. p. 119.

III. Letters from Ld. Burghley, Sir Rob. Cecyl, the
Earl of Huntingdon, Sir Tho. Egerton, the Vice-
Chamberlain Heneage, Sir William Fitzwilliams, Ld.
Deputy of Ireland, Sir Hen. Wallop, Gilbert E. of
Shrewfbury, Sir Tho. Stanhope to Sir John Pucker-
ing Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, &c. — With Let-
ters concerning Chrift Church Coll. Oxon. p. 120.

IV. Acts and Instruments taken from the Regifters of
Matthew Wren, Benjamin Laney, Peter Gunning,
Francis Turner, and Simon Patrick. Bifhops of Ely. p.
201.

V. Particulars concerning the Spoils of the Church, e
MS. Puckering, p. 273.

VI. Particulars concerning the Queen's (Eliz.) Legiti-
macy. — Of Sir Anthony Shirley. — The Order of St.
Michael, &c. p. 283.

VII. Lord Vifcount Montague and other Re-

cufants. — The State of Ireland an. 1590, &c. p. 295.

VIII. Order of Council, with Returns made of Popilh
Fugitives 1593. p. 315.

IX. Particulars concerning the See of Ely, its intended
Spoils, &c. p. 327.

X. Mr. Peter Wentworth, &c. in the Cafe of

theSucceffion. p. 339.

XI. Complaints and Anfwers concerning the exceffive
Price of Coals at Newcaftle. p. 373.

XII. More Particulars concerning the feditious Princi-
ples of Penry, Barrow, &c. with the blafphemous
Opinions of Marloe and others, briefly noted. Sir
Walter Raleigh, p. 37$.

XIII. • ■ Popilh Recufants, ex MS. Puckering.

p. 405.

XIV. A Challenge betwixt Lord Walden and Sir Edward
Herbert. — Confpiracy againft the E. of Shrewfbury.

B 2 The

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— The Murder of Mr. Long, by Sir Charles and Sir
Henry Danvers. p. 457.

XV. An Account of the Death of Queen Elizabeth p.
p. 463.

XVI. Letters betwixt T. F. and Juftus Lipfitis. p. 465.

XVII. Johan. de Suckley five Racfter de Matrimonio.

P- 475-

XVIII. Ignoramus, with the Names of the Actors, a
Geo. Ruggle % p. 479.

VOL. XVI.

I. Extracts from Bp. "Wren's Regifters at Hereford,
Norwich and Ely. p. 1.

II . Nomina etTituli Ecclefiarum infra Dioc, Eliens. p.43.

III. Charta Donationis Ecclefise de Conyton. p. 47.

IV. Particulars of Weft and Goodrich r Bifhops of Ely.
p. 48.

V. A Narrative of the Divorce of the E. of EfTex from
his Wife, written by the ABp. of Canterbury \ p. 65,

VI. An Account of the fame by another Hand. p. 147.

VII. Wills and Extracts of Wills, e Regift. Epi. Eliens.

P- 153-

VIII. ABp. Bancroft's Will, wherein he gives his Books
to the Library of Lambeth, &c. and how afterwards
they were fent to Cambridge, and given back at the
Reiteration, p. 177.

IX. The Will of William Plat, Efq-, and Codicil an-
nexed, Founder of fome Fellowfhips in St. John's
College, p. 179. with their Settlemenx there, p. 219.

X. The

p The fulleft and mod authentic Account of her Death, is in the
Memoirs of Carey E. of Monmouth in 1759* by the E. of Qflory,

p. 136, Sec.

1 This was printed in 1731.

* Matters1 Hift. C. C. C. C. p. 293.

"• Probably the fame with the printed Account, taken from ABp,
Abbot's own M5. I2mc. iy I J.

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£. The Will of Mr. Barnabas Oley, Fellow of Clare

Hall and Archdeacon of Ely. p. 191.
XL Claufes of Mr. Syrnonds and Mr. Sandford's Wills*

with their Bequefts to St. John's College, p. 226.

XII. Memoirs of Mr. Mofes, Dr. Mapletoft, and Dr.
Hewyt of Clare Hall. p. 229.

XIII. Dr. Dowman's Chantry Priefts in Pouli?, with
other Chantries, p. 243.

XIV. Original Letters from R. Afcham to Mr. Raven,
&c. with others from Mr. Jo. Chriftopheribn to Bp.
Tunftal, &c. p. 275.

XV. Bp. Brownrig's, Mr. Edwards's, Bernard's, Baro's
and Rudd's Cafes, p. 29c.

XVI. A Difcourle of the E. of Devonshire, in Defence
of his Marriage with Lady Rich. p. 305.

XVII. Particulars concerning Bp. Overal \ p. 325.409.

XVIII. Extracts from the Album Jacobi Caftelvetri.

P.- 393-

XIX. Catalogus Ecclefiae Italicse 1568. p. 405.

XX. Reafons of the Dean and Chapter of Ely for not
yielding to an Alienation, p. 409.

X^Lf. Martin (Heton)1, Biftiop of Ely, his Alienation
of certain Manors from his See. p. 417.

XXII. The Compofuion between the Patron and Rector
of Wimple, Camb. p. A.33.

XXIII. A Report made in Parliament concerning the
Match, and the Palatinate, p. 439. with other Reports
and Queitions in Parliament, 18 Jac. I. p. 451.

XXIV. The King's Letter for Dr. Prideaux to be Bp.
of Worcefter. p. 460.

XXV. Particulars concerning St. Paul's Cath. p. 463.

XXVI. The State of the Council in the Marches of
Wales in the Time of Elizabeth, p. 471.

XXVII. Let-
9 See above, Vol. II. p. 200.

1 He fucceeded Bp Cox, afcer the See had been vacant 20 Years,
in 1599. See an Account of thefc Manors in Bro. Willis's Survey
of that Church, p. 340.

B3

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XXVII. Letters and Extra&s from Mr. Pory to Sir Tho,
Puckering, p. 473. 479.

XXVIII. The E. of Caftlehaven's u Trial, Execution,
&c. in 1 63 1. p. 475.

XXIX. A Letter concerning Printing at Harlem, fv

477-

XXX. Lord Hallifax's Patent, p. 478.

VOL. XVII.

I. Statuta Coll. Jefu Cant, una cum Interpretationibus
Viiica-corum, Literis, Commem. Benefaft. &c. p. 1,

II. — Coil. Chrifti Cant, cum Interpretationibus

Vifitatorum, Literis, Teftamento Jof. Mede, &c. p.
61.

III. • 'Acad. Cant, compilata per Doclores Turner

ct Gower, a JacoboII. fancienda. p. 115.

IV. Collectanea e Regiftro veteri Aulse Pembrok. Cant,
una cum Notis quibufdam adje&is a Matt. Wren
poltea Epo. Eliens. p. 125.

V. Confuetudinarium vetus Scholar Etonenfis. p. 167.

VI. Colle&anea a Rationario five Libro Cenfuali Eccle-
fias B. Marias Cant. p. 175.

VII. A Briefe of the Entertainment of Q^Eliz. at Ox-
ford in 1592, by Mr. Stringer, Efquire Bedel, p. 195.

VIII. An Account of the Entertainment of K. James I.
the Queen and Prince at Oxford in 1605.

IX. De Strudtura et Benefacloribus Ecclef. B. Marias
majoris Cant. p. 217.

X. Of the Situation of the Town of Cambridge, — Of
Grievances there. — Of the new Canal and Water
brought from the nine Wells near Trumpington, — -
De Hofpitiis, Ecclefiis, &c. p. 219.

XI. Particulars from the Regifter of Martin Heton,
Bp. of Ely. p. 227.

XII. A

u Mervin Lord Audley condemned for affifling in a Rape upon his

own Lady, and fcr Sodomy.

[ *3 ]

XII. A Colle&ion of Letters relating to the Univeifity
of Oxford, being a Supplement to that in Vol. VIII,
No. VI. p. 249.

XIII. Statuta Aulas Regiae, a Rege Ricardo II. data. p.
269.

XIV. Charta Fundationis Ecclcf. Cath. Cantuar. &c.
279. — ABp. Cranmer's Articles of the Vifitation of
that Church 1550, p. 284. — Aniwers of the Chapter
to Articles exhibited by the Queen's Vifuors in the
beginning of her Reign, p. 287.

XV. Lettres Royales, &c. ex Colled, in Archivis Acad.
Cant. p. 291.

XVI. Excerpta quasdam de Academiis e Regiftro Ba-
thon. et Wellens. p. 299. -— Protcitatio Regis Hifpa-
nice 1 63 1 . p. 298. — Literae Teftimoniaies conceffe a
Cancellario Acad. Cant. 1316, e Biblioth. Karleiana.
p. 302.

XVII. Lucius Confolatorius fuper mortem D. Cancel-
larii Angliae, Sir Chriflopher Hatton, 1591. ib.

VOL. XVIII.

I. Genealogies, Interments of Bifhops and other learned
Men of the Univerfiry of Cambridge, p. 1.

II. Particulars concerning Peterhouie. p. 27.

III. ' ' >■ Caius College, p. 43.

IV. 1 1 ■ Pembroke Hall. p. 55. ,

V. Trinity Hall. p. 65.

VI. i Dr. Worthington, Matter of

Jelus College in 1650, with others relating to the
Univerfity. p. 71.

VII. Mri Duport Praevaricatio, five fpecimen Ingenii
prioris feculi 1631. p. 231.

VIII. Notas quaedam tranferiptas e Codice notato in
Margine manu Johan. Bale. p. 241.

IX. Particulars concerning the See of Canterbury, and
from the Council Book of Edw. VI. p. 253.

X. De Denariis Sti Petri, p. 260.

B 4 XI: Re-

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XI. Refignations by ABp. Cranmer. p. 261.

XII. Colled, e MS. cui Titulus, Privata Sigilla et Billse
fignatse, penes Tho. Rawlinfon Armig. p. 285.

XII I. Collections on various Subjects from Dr. Kennet,
Dean or Peterborough, p. 361.

XIV. A Supplement to Dr. Hatcher's Catalogue, with
other Particulars relating to King's College, p. 459.
— And Others from Mr. Worthington's Papers, p.

473-

XV. Particulars concerning Trinity College, with the
Funeral Sermon of Mr.. Thomas Harrifon, Vicemafter.
p. 481.

V O L. XIX.*

I. Status Coll. Trin. Cant. p. 1. — Particulars concern-
ing King's Hall. p. 4. — Status Domus Michaelis.
p. 7.

II. Statutes of the Church of Ely, with a Catalogue of
Prebend. Parfons, &c. p. 16.

III. A Copy of Mr. John Crane's Will, p. 16. — that
of Dr. Butler the famous Phyfician. p. 39.

■IV. Infcriptiones defumptas ex veteri Tabula ieu Charta
Acad, et Oppidi Cant. p. 41.

V. Hilloria Fundationis et Progreffus Monaiierii de
Burgo Sri Edmundi. p. 45.

VI. Liters originales fcriptse a D. Beaumont, Math,
Wren, &c. p. 71.

VU. The Lite of Dr. John Fi flier", Bp. of Rochefter.

P- *37;

VIII. Inicriptiones e veteri Tabula Oxon. p. 267.

IX. Hiftoriola Coll. C. C. C,y cum aliis ad id Coll. per-
tinent, p. 271. 563.

X. Sta-

• This is Vol. tfXII. in the Harleian Catal.

* A Life of him by Mr. Lewis of Margate in MS. late in the
Hands of bir Pet. Tomfon. Hift. of C. C. C. C. Append, p. 103.

y By John Joflelyn, Secretary ;o ABp. Parker. See Matters* Hift.
of C, C. t. C. p. 90.

[ *5 ]

X. Scatutum Coll. Trin. 4ium. de Electione et OfHciis
trium Praslectorum Regiorum, cum aliis ad iftud
Coll. pertinent, p. 359.

XI. Fundatio, Statuta, Injun&iones, &c. Coll. five li-
berie Capellae de Windfor. p. 379.

XII. Particulars concerning the Town of Cambridge,
Stourbridge Chapel, Chapel Lands, Letters, Mayors,
&c. p. 461. 529.

XIII. Mr. Edw. Storey's Will and Charity, p. 507.

XIV. Oratio habita ad Exequias Math. Wren Epu
Elienf. per Jo. Pearfon S. T. P. p. 511.

XV. Fundatio Capeltee de Fenny Stratford in Agro
Buck. p. 519.

XVI. A Paper fubfcribed by the Bifhops and learned
Men, concerning the Sacrament of holy Orders, p.
521.

XVII. MS. Papers fent by Dr. Humphrey, Bp. of Ban-
gor, to Mr. Anthony Wood, giving an Account of
learned Men in Wales, &c. p. 543.

XVIII. The 9peech of (Rudd) Bp. of St. David's in
Convocation 1604. p. 567.

XIX. Mancheftcr College, and Mr. Peploe's Cafe. p.

571-

XX. A Return from the Bp. of Landaff to the ABp. of

Cant. p. 575.

V O L. XX.

I. Particulars concerning the Foundation, Endowments,
Benefactors, &c. of Queen's College, Cambridge,
p. 1.

II. Orationes Mri Goodwin, Love?, Creitton, &c. p.
47.

III. Lelandi Antiphilarchia, fpecimen tantum. p. 63.

IV. An Account of Alien Priories belonging to King's
College, p. 65.

V.An

56 Matter of C. C. C. C. Lady Margaret'* Profeflbr of Divinity,
and Dean of Ely. Hi A. Coll. p. 143.

( 26 }

V. An Account of Religious Houfes in or near Cam-
bridge, MS. p. 67.

VI. JParticulars from the Diaries of Drs. Dillingham and
Blith, both Mafters of Clare Hall after the Reftoration.
p. 72.

VII. Peregrini Baronis de Willoughby ad placitum Or-
dinum Belgarum Refponfio Apologetica. p. 79.

VIII. Mr. Jof. Mede's Letters, with Particulars con-
cerning Cambridge, p. 99.

IX. Letters from or to Sir Symond Dewes, Mr. Whe-
lock and Mr. Mede. p. 113.

X. Infcriptions in Greenwich Church, p. 118. — In the
Cath. of Lincoln. 121. 367. — In the Church of Uf-
fington. p. 130.

XI. A Note relating to the Birth of Oliver Cromwell,
p. 131.

XII. A Lift of the Members of Convocation 1623—24.
p. 132.

XIII. An Account of the feveral Colleges, e MS. inter
Archiv. Acad. p. 139.

XIV. Notata e Libris Procuratorum Acad. Cant. p.
169.

XV. The Foundation and Diflblution of the Priory of
Higham, and of the appropriating ic to St. John's
College, with the Proceedings againft the Nuns for
Lewdnefs and Incontinence, p. 173. 195.

XVI. Particulars concerning the Monaftery of St. Mary
at York. p. 191.

XVII. A memorable Paflage from, the Chronicle of
Dunftaple. p. 201.

XVIII. A Catalogue of Prebendaries of Lincoln, p. 203,

XIX. Tituli Epiftolarum Tho. de Bekynton — quie-
dam de Gul. Millington. p. 221.

XX. De Sepultura Epifc. Eliens. — De Gul. Grey Ep;
Eliens. p. 223.

XXI. Colled, ex Regiftro Whittlefey Arch. Cant. p.
224. — e MS. Cotton. Cleopatra E. 11. p. 227.

XXII. Sea-

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XXII. Sententia Cancel, et Convocat. Acad. Oxon.
contra Wickliffe, &c. p. 230.

XXIII. Liters Hen. IV. de Epifc. Carliolen. et de Pro-
vifionibus, &c. p. 235.

XXIV. Letters to Lord Cromwell, &c. concerning the
Reformation and Difiblution of Monafteries, &c. p.
242.

XXV. Procedings of the Church and Convocation in
the Time of Hen. VIII. p. 256.

XXVI. Obitus et Inftallationes Decanor. et Canonicor:.
de Windfor. ab an. 1668. ad an. 1697. P- 2^8.

XXVII. Excerpta e Regiftris Winchelfey, Reynolds,
Stafford, Kempe, Cranmer, Grindal, Whitgift Ar-
chiep. Cantuar. p. 269.

XXVIII. MS. de Feodis et Feoffamentis Tho. Audley
Militis. p. 287.

XXIX. Epitaphs of Bps. Sanderfon and Barlow at Bug-
den, p. 294.

XXX. Acts of Prefentation in the Regiftry of the Bp.
of Lincoln, p. 295.

XXXI. Epitaphs in the Cathedral Church of Sarum *.;

P-3°9-

XXXII. Excerpta e Regiftro Hemmgfby, penes Decan:
et Capit. Sarum. p. 317. — Et e Regiftris Epifcopo-
rum Sarum. p. 323. ,

XXXIII. Collectiones e Regiftris Buckyngham, Re-
pyngdon, Flemyug, Gray, Amewick, Chedworth,
Rotheram, Smith, Atwater, RufTel, Longland, Sutton,
&c. Eporum Lincoln, p. 325,433. 500.

XXXIV. e Chartuiario Ecclef. Eliens. p.

339-

XXXV. ■ e Chronico Ecclef. S. Burianas in
Cornubia. p, 343.

XXXVI. ex MSS. Lambethanis. p. 346.

XXXVII. ex Chartuiario S. Gregorii Can-
tuar. p. 349.

XXXVIII. Cata-
* Probably printed in the Hiftory of that Church. 8vo. 1723.

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XXXVIII. Catalogus Benefa&orum Acad. Oxon. p.

35°-

XXXIX. Lafl Wills and Teftaments of Bps. Sanderfon,
Juxon, Warner, Barrow, Gunning b, Morley, Thorn-
dyke, Edw. Arnold, Dr. Bufby, Win. Martin, p.

XL. Epitaphs in the Cath. Church of Lincoln, p. $67.
XLI. Codices MSS. Harleiani juxta feriem notati. p.

36S.
XLII. Collections from the Council Book of Q^ Eliz,

1573- P- 38°-
XLII1. Colled, e Regiftris Fitzjames, Tunftal, Stokef-

ley, Bonner Epifc. London, p. 391.
XLIV. Abjuratio Dominici Ferrari LL.D. Neopolita-

nicorum Epo. London, p. 420.
XLV. Colled, e Regiftris Epi. et Decan. Eccles. Cath.

Petriburgh. p. 421.
XLVI. . Gul. Warham Arch. Cant.

P- 439-
XLV11. Math. Parker Arch. Cant.

P-479-

XLV11I. . Rob. Sanderfon Epi. Lin-
coln, p. 493. — With the Effect of the Bartholomew
Act in that Diocefe. p. 498.

XL1X. Memoranda of Smith and Longland, Bps. of
Lincoln, p. 499.

L. The Progrels of K. Hen. VIII. - The Ceremonial of
the Chriftening of Prince Arthur. — Of the receiving
a Cup and Sword from the Pope. — - Of the Creation
of the Prince of Wales and being dubbed a Knight.
— Of the Queen's taking her Chamber 5 Hen. VII,

v- 504.

LI. Inftructions to the Abbot of Thorney % concerning
the Confinement of Reginald Peacock, p. 516.

LII. The

b See an Account of his Benefactions in Mailers' Hift. of C. C,
C. C. p. 158. and in Bentham's Ely, p. 204.

c See his Life by J. Lewis, 8vo. 1744. p. 256.

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LI I. The Treaty and Ratification of the Marriage of

Charles I. with Henrietta of France, p. 517.
LI II. Epiftolae Rich. Coxe ad Antiftites Tigurinos et

eorum Refponfa. p. 525.
LIV. A Defcription of the Foundation and Privileges of

the Univerfity of Cambridge, printed in 1572, very

fcarce. p. 533.
LV. Letters of Tho. Cartwright, D. Pet. Baro, Wm.

Chark, Dr. Whitaker, Tho. Lever, &c. p. 343.

VOL. XXI.*

I. Excerpta e Regiftris Simon de Montacute, 1537,
Tho. de lnfula,i345, Tho. de Arundel, 13 74, Joh. de
Fordham, 1388, Tho. deBouchier, 1443, Wm. Gray,
1454, J°- Alcock, i486, Nic. Weft, 1515, Tho.
Thirlby, 1554, &c. p. I.

II. De Prsedicatore Acad, fundato a Domina Marga-
reta. p. 66.

III. Regiftrum Petitionum five Gratiarum concefT. in
Congregatione Regentium et Non-Regentium Univ.
Cant, ab an. 1501 ad an. 1688, una cum fucceflione
Vicecancellarior. p. 6y.

IV. Computus Acad, by the Vicechancellors and Proc-
tors, p. 82.

V. Commemoratio Benefactor, in Acad. Cant, quotan^
nis in Ecclef. B. Marian, p. 86.

VI. Affertio de Antiquitate Acad. Cant, ex diverfis au-
thoribus defumpt. ex MS. Jof. Cofin Epi. Dunelm.
p. 88.

VII. Delineatio brevis Libror. Rob. Hare Arm, in Ar-
chivis Acad. p. 90.

VIII. Statuta Acad. Cant, ex Codice MS. C. C. p. 92.

IX. Miicellanea Coll. C. C. p. 97.

X. The Excommunication of Dr. Cliff, LL.D. Chan.
to Bp. Weft. p. 98.

XL De Rectoria Burwelli. p. 100.

XII. No-

* This is Vol. XIX. in the Harleian Cat.

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XII. Nomina et Cognom. omnium Canomcor. et Pre-
bend. Eccles. Cath. Lincoln. 1552. p. 102.

XIII. The Vifitation of the Univerfity of Cambridge,
3 Edw. VI. p. 105.

XIV. Letters of illuftrious Men, from a MS. of C. C.
C. p. in.

XV. Hiftoriola Coll. C. C. C. per Jofcelinum. p. 115.

XVI. Several Particulars concerning the Univerfity of
Cambridge, p. 117.

XVII. Letters tranferibed out of the Orator's Book,
p. 127.

XVIII. Donations to the Publick Library, p. 130.

XIX. Sir Hen. Spelman's Propofitions concerning the
Saxon Lecture to be conferred upon Abr. Wheelock
in 1640. p. 131.

XX. The Statutes of Peterhoufe. p. 132.

XXI. DeCuftodibus et Sociis Pembrokianis. p. 140.

XXII. Particulars concerning Bene't College, p. 153.

XXIII. Statuta Coll. Chrifti in Acad. Cant. p. 155.

XXIV. Extracts from Hatcher's MS. Catalogue of the
Provofts, Fellows and Scholars of King's College, p.
163.— Item from the Regifter and other Books of
the Coll. by Mr. Canon, p. 167.

XXV. Extract, ex Regiftro Elienfi. p. 169.'

XXVI. Particulars concerning Jefus College, p. 173.

XXVII. A Lift of the Charters, Papers, &c. in the
Treaiury of Trin. Coll. with that of the Mafters. p.

XXVIII. An Account of fome old Grants and Char-
ters to the Univerfity of Cambridge, p. 179.

XXIX. A Mornynge Remembrance of the noble Prin-
cefs, Margarete Countefs of Richmond and Darbye,
Moder unto Hen. VII. compyled by John Fyfher, Bp.
of Rochefterd. p. 193.

XXX. Particulars relating to to St. John's Coll. with
fome Letters to and from Bp. Fifher. p. 201.

VOL.

* Printed by Mr. Baker in 8vo. 1708.

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VOL. XXII.»

I. A Treatife concerning the Life and Manner of Death
of John Fifher, Bp. of Rochefter and Cardinal of the
holy Church of Rome. p. i. 205.

II. Collections from the Paper Office, with a Regifter
of the Council from 1557 t0 J559- P* 37*

III. A Letter from the Princefs Elizabeth to Q. Mary,
when in Danger of being committed to the Tower,
p. 41.

IV. A Licence to Dr. Gwent to wear his Bonnet in the
King's Prefence, 35 Hen. VIII. p. 43.

V. Letters to and from Lord Burghley on Univerfity
Bufinefs. p. 44. 42. 54. 57. 66. 95.

VI. A Complaint of four Fellows of Pemb. Hall againft
Dr. Beale their Mafter, with his Anfwer p. 48.

VII. Catal. omnium Theologorum in Acad. Cant. p. 53/

VIII. Particulars relating to Clare Hall. p. $y.

IX. Articles againft Rich. Longworth, Matter of St.
John's Coll. 1565. p. 61. with farther Particulars con-
cerning the College, p. 65. 191.

X. Particulars relating to Eman. Coll. p. 78.

XL ' Chrift Church in Oxford, p.

81.
XII. • Trin. Coll. Camb. p. 81.279.

XIII. Complaints between the Town of Cambridge and
the Univerfity. p. 82. 109.

XIV. Concerning the D. of Buckingham's Intention of
building a Library, p. 85.

XV. Particulars relating to Bene't Coll. p. 87.

XVI. • Queen's Coll. p. 89.

XVII. ■ Peter Houfe. p. 91.

XVIII. An Account of Monuments in the Cathedral
Church of Norwich by Sir Tho. Brown e. p. 119.

XIX. Monuments at York, printed by Dr.Drake. p. 123.

XX. Ad*

* This is Vol. XX. in the Harleian Catal.

e Publifhed in 8vo. 1712, under the Title of Repertorium.

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XX. Admifiions to Benefices, p. 124.

XXI. Monuments at Lynn Regis f. p. 129.

XXII. An Account of Dr. Wallis's Life by himfelf, in
a Letter to Dr. Tho. Smith, p. 129.

XXIII. Excerpta e Regiftris Eporum Dunhelm, with a
particular Defcription of the whole Church, Altars,
Paintings, &c. p. 131. 141.

XXIV. Breve Regium de veniendo ad Parliamentum.
p. 141.

XXV. Notes of Bp. Cofin entered in his Common
Prayer Book of 1636. p. 18 r.

XXVI. The Ceremony of healing the King's Evil by
the King.

XXVII. Memoranda taken out of the Almanack of
Mr. Wm. Neil. p. 189.

XXVIII. Collect, relating to the Foundation, and Hif-
tory of St. John's and Chrift Colleges, Bp. Fifher,
&c.

XXIX. A Lift of eminent Men born in the Town of
Cambridge, p. 273.

XXX. Colled, de Domu Sti Michaelis, Aula Regis,
Coll. Trin. &c. p. 275. 285. 324.

XXXI. A Petition to Parliament touching the Priory
of Barnwell, 2 Hen. V.

XXXII. ■ of Tho. Pannfeld, under an Out-
lawry, to the Houfe of Commons, in the Time of
Hen. V. p. 297.

XXXIII. • to Hen. V. from the Vicechancei-

lor and Scholars of the Univerfity of Cambridge, p.
312.

XXXIV. Mifcel. de mutuofaciendo 7 Hen. V. p. 317.
— Pro Scholaribus Aute Regis 1 Hen. V.-— De Pro-
tectione Oxon. &c. p. 326.

XXXV. An Account of the Birth of the pretended
Prince of Wales, by (Lloyd) Bp. of Worcester, p.

329-

N,B. The

f In Mackerell's Hift. of that Town, 8vo. 1738.

t 33 ]
N.E. The above two Vols, having no Index or Pages
markt, feem to be fome of the firft of Mr. Baker's col-
lecting, being not wholly written by himlclf, but con lilt
of different Papers bound up together.

V O I, XXIII.

J. Several Decrees pafTed by the Mailer and Fellows of
St. John's Coll. Camb. in Relation to the Di.cipline
of the College from 1538 to 1699.

II. An authentick Copy of their Statutes belonging for-
merly to Bp. Watfon.

III. An Account of the feveral private Foundations of
Fellowfhips, Scholarfhips, Exhibitions, &c. in the
College.

IV. An imperfect Copy of the Univcrfity Statutes.

V. An Account of feveral Graces, Interpretations of
Statutes by the Heads, Injunctions, Inflructions, Let'
ters from our Kings, &c. to the Univerfity.

N.B. The above 23 Vols, of Mr. Baker's Collections,
are in theBritifh Mufeum : the following are now in the
PoiTerTion of the Univerfity of Cambridge, and of which
a more particular Account will be given.

V O L. XXIV.

I. Tranfcripta e veteri Regiftro Procuratorum Acad.
Cant, ab anno 1488 ad ann. 1544, viz. Gratis, Gra-
dus, Literae fcriptse Mr0. Doket. 1490. p. 3. Com-
pofitio inter Coll. Rejale et Aulam Trinitatis 1495. p.
9. Poteftas conceila Cardinali Wolfey condendi nova
Statu ta pro termino Vit:e 1524, p. 68. et executori-
bus Domini Reede Militis condendi Statuta pro tri-
bus LectoribusTerentii, Logices et Philofophiae 1524,
p. 69.

II. Regiftrum Gratinrum, Graduum, &c. e veteri Libro
Mathan Stokys, Notarii Publici et Acad. Cant. Re-
gistrar, au anno 1542 ad an. 1589. p. 105,

C III. A

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III. A Grace for examining the Archives, Papers and
Evidences, which had been much neglected, and re-
ducing them into Order, in 1552. p. 118. Another
to the fame Purpofe, 2 July, 1620. p. 329.

IV. Nomina Quasftioniftarum anno 1603, 4, 7. p. 194.

V. Prselentatio ad Vicariam de Campfall 1601. p. 197.
Literae Teftimonial. Geo. Mountain 1601. The Sub-
miffion of John Hurft, Bayliffof the Town, 1629.
Prima Prefentatio ab Acad, ad Reel:, de Somerfham
1636, et Terington 1638. Negotium Electionis Doffc.
Branthwaite aa Cultodiam Coll. Caii 1607. p. 201.
1 .iters Patent, ut Dominus Rob. Dudley Ordinum
Garterii lit Senefchallus Univerfitatis 1560. p. 206.
i ,;cences of Univerfity Preachers recalled, till they
ubferibe the Articles of 1562. p. 207. Liters Pa-

nt. pro Tho. Thomas Imprefibre 1584. ib. Certific-
ates of the Parilhes of Streatham, Wympole and
'.Vhaddon, being within rive Miles of Cambridge, and
therefore exempt from Purveyors 1561. p. 209, &c.
i-'rom Mr. Tabor Regiiter his Booke.
. An Account of the Building of St. Maries Church
-.rem 1478 to 1519, e MS. Coll. C. C. C. p. 2 13. Ma-
uitter Glomeriae ex Libro Matt. Cant. p. 219.
\". i. Mifia pro Benefactoribus Univerf. Cant. temp.
Hen. VIII. p. 221. De Sermone ad Clerum. The
Manner of Vefpers in Divinity, p. 228. The Com-
mencement and Difputaticns in Divinity, p. 229.
.1 r.e Vefpers in Canon and Civil Law, in Arts, Gram-
ar, &c. p. 233, &c. Order of the Quasftionifts. p.
: uj. Solutiones facie ndae Procan. Proc. et Bedell.
;n Admiffione ad Gradus. p. 245. Statut. de Bedell,
tt prandiis eorum. John Lycigate's Verfes on the
Foundation of the Univerfity. p. 249.
V ! i i. The Manner of the Reception of the French Am-
baffador P, the Lord Burghley, Chancellor, and others

of

When he was carried to Pcrerhoufe to fee Dr. Peme's Study or
L;j;aiy> fuppofed to be the vvortiueil in all England.

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of the Nobility in 1571. p. 256. and of the Univer-
fities attending the Queen at Audley End in 157b',
when me was prefented with Rob. Stephens Greek
Teflament elegantly bound, and a Pair of Gloves per-
fumed and garnifhed, which colt 60s. to the Chan.
a Pair of 20 s. with Gloves, Yeries, &c. to feveral
Noblemen, p. 252.

IX. Decretum pro Regiilrario Acad. Oxon. p. 259. of
the Divinity School and Library founded there in
1478. p. 260. The Manner of creating their Chan-
cellor, Sir Chrifiopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor,
1588. p. 262.

X. Caufa mota inter Whitnell A. B. Fell, of Trin. Coll.
and John Theeder of the Town, for an Aflault, in
15S0. p. 266. with a Difpute about fwearing in the
Mayor on Mich. Day 1577. P» 27^-

XI. Nomina Graduatorum, Gratis conceffe, &c. ab
an. 1589 ad an. 1620. p. 279.

XII. Tranfcripta e veteri Libro Procuratoris inter Ar-
chiv. Acad. viz. Exequiae precipuor. Bencfactorum.
p. 33 1. Statutum de Elecfione Procuratorum. p. 332.
Liters Gratiarum Regi Ricardo III. pro variis Bene-
faclionibus dat. 6 Mar. 1483. p. 334. Donum Eliz.
Clare 200 Marc, ad Reparationem Ciftarum 1489. p.
339. Pla^c cum variis Gratiis adje&a funt, vel a fronts
vel a tergo Codicis Statutorum, recentiora tpfis Sta-
tutis. Statut. quasdam Acad. Cant, p. 341.

XIII. The Copies of diverie Letters from Privie Coun-
faillours, 8cc. Men of Honour, fen: to the Vicechan-
cellor, &c. in the Time of Dr. J ego 11 h r^oO, 7, 8. p.
34.5. with various Anlwers, from Lord Burleigh their
Chancellor, Lord Chief Jultice Pop ham, Jo. ABp. of
Canterbury, Ric. Bp. of London, Lord hiiex, An-
thony Bo. of Chicheiler, \Vm. Norwich, Sir Rob.
Cecil &c, chiefly relating to Difputes with the Mayor
and Corporation, and Proceedings againlt Feake,

Rudde,
Mafler of C. C. C C. and Dp. of Nonv. Hift. Coll. p. 1 26.
C 2

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Rudde, Barret, Alabafter and Huddlefton, for their
Doclrines, and to the Election of a Matter at Kath.
Hall. p. 364. An Application for eftablifhing Mrs.
Frankland's Foundation at Cai. Coll. p. 384.

XIV. Tranfcripts from the famous Leidger Book of
Waltham Abbey, wrote by Rob. Fuller laft Abbot, as
appears from the firft Letters of his Name in leveral
of the initial Letters of the Book, and upon one,
hunc fcripfit Librum Ds. Robertus Fuller [MS. Har-
ley]. p. 389.

XV. Chronicon Monachorum Anglise ab an. 870 ad
an. 1 216. p. 421. cum Benefactoribus et aliis perti-
nentibus ad Ccenobium Sti Edmundi Regis et Mar-
tyris'. p. 426. Chronicon. breve, 52 Hen. II. etEdv.
I. [MS. Harley].

XVI. Tranfcripts from a Leidger Book of Battell Ab-
' bey an. 25 Edv. I. [MS. Harley. p. 437.

XVII. Degrees conferred on the King's coming to
Camb. on the 15th of May, 1615. p. 449.

VOL. XXV.

I. Burgus Cantabr. five Liber Privilegiorum et Liber-
tatum, et rerum memorabilium Burgum et Villain
Cantab, concernentium, a Gul. I. ad 3™. Jacobi Col-
led, per Jac. Tabor, p. 1.

II. Gratise live Petitiones et Gradus, e Regift. Acad, ab
an. 163S ad an. 1669. p. 150.

III. Grange et Gradus ibid. an. 1620 ad an. 1639. p.

^55-

IV. A Leafe of the Univerfity Lands lying; about Cam-
bridge, 25 Mar. i6Eiiz, p. 271.

V. Mr. Tobias Ruftat's Gift of icool. to the Univer-
fity lor tlvi Purchaie of Books into the Publick Li-
brary in 1 636. p. 273.

VI. The Legacy of John Crane Eiq-, to the Univerfity
and leveral Corporations, together with an Houfe in

Great
J FarLl)' printed in Dugdale'i Monad. Vol. I. .p. 300.

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Great St. Maries Parilh for the Ufe of the Profcfibr or
Phyfick, and an Abftract of the Writings, 3 Sept.
1658. p. 276.

VII. A Collection of Mandates, Letters, &c. for De-
grees, Headfhips, Fellowships, from 1660 to 1680,
taken from the Originals, inter Archiv. Acad. Cant.
p. 283.

VIII. Extracts from Dr. Stanley's Catalogue of MSS. in
C. C. C. which was printed in fol. 1722. A new one
has been fince published by Mr. Naafmith late Fellow
of the College in 4:0. 1777. p. 331.

IX. Gradus Diplomatici Lambethani admifli Cantab.

P-359-

X. De duabus Gildis, altera SS. Petri et Pauli Cantab.

p. 361. altera Omnium Sanctorum, p. 367. Charters
and Priviledges of the Univerfitie and Towne. p. 373,

XI. Various Particulars concerning Trinity Hall, from
Archiv. Coll. p. 381.

XII. The State of the Affairs of Printing in the Uni-
yerliry of Oxford in 1672. p. 399.

XIII. Many Particulars taken from the Regifters of
Admiffions, &c. of Queen's Coll. by the Rev. Dr.
Davies Matter, an. 1720. p. 405.

XIV. Privy Seals, &c. concerning King's Hall, King's
College, Queen's College, or the Univerfity, from
the Originals, chiefly in the Times of Hen. VI. and
Edw. IV. by John Anftis, Efq; p. 435.

XV. The Conveyance of Grey Friers, now Sidney Coll.
in Purfuance of an Act of Parliament for building the
College, ioSept. 30 Eliz. p. 451.

XVI. Letters from Mr. Limborch to Mr. Oliver Doy-
ley, Fellow of King's Coll. from the Originals, an.
1684 & 7. p. 461.

VOL. XXVI.

I. An Account of eminent Men in the Welfh Diocefes,

fait by Bp. Humphreys to Anthony Wood, but not

c 3 in^

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inferted in Athen. Oxon. MS. in the Hands of Bp.
Kennet. p. i.

II. An Account of the Interments of Bifhops, taken
from their Wills, regiftered in the Prerogative Court
of Canterbury, from the Collect, of Br. Willis, Efq-,

p. 21.

III. Grants cf Arms to the five Regius ProfefTors, in
their proper Colours 1590, and to the Corporation of
Cambridge in 1575. p. 27.

IV. Extract, e veteri Regiftro, live Libro Procuratorum
[ab an. 1454 uique ad an. 14S8] inter Archiv. Acad.
Cant. p. 31. Letters to K. Richard III. p. 6y, and
the Duke of Gloceiter. p. 68. Collatio Vicarias de
Cameihali dat. Univers. Cant. 1483. p. 70. There
sre other Particulars concerning Difputes with the
Townfmen, &c. in 1533,4, in the fame Book, in a
more modern Hand, by one of the Bedels, p. yg.

V. Collectiones e veteri Libro MS. Tho. Markaunt k,
Antiquarii peritiiiimi et inter noilros primi, IDicSt.
Liber P'vilegior. et Statutorum Univerfttatis, inter
Archiva Acad. Cant. p. 84.

VI. Wills and Extracts from 1602 to 1658, taken from
the Univerfity Regifters. Mod of the confiderable
and charitable Wills are copied at large, the others
are extracted. They are chiefly of Members of the
Univerfity. p. 113. With a Continuation to the Year
1716. p. 219.

VII. Orationes et Scripta quasdam Joan. Overall S.T.P.
Regii, et poftea Epifc. Nordov. ob. 1619. ast. 60. e
Codice MS0. Rev. Viri Rob. Lambert S.T.P. p. 319.

VIII. The Will of Dr. John Chriftopheribn ', Bp. of
Chichefter, dat. 6 Oct. 1556, and Part of Sir Edvv.

Stan-

k See a full Account of Markaunt and his Collections in Matters'
Hill, of C. C. C. C. p. 41, 2.

1 He was deprived, and died 1 Eliz. Mailer of Trin. Coll. Dean
of Durham, &c. Le Neve's Falli, p. 50. and Carter's Hilt. ofCamb,
p. 32°-

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Stanhope's with Eenefactions to Trinir.

^ College, p. 351.

IX. Tranfcripta e Regains Teftamentorum Epifc. Lon
don. ab an. 1382 ad an. 1568. Chiefly relating v>
Cambridge and the Univcrfitv, by Mr. Worthington.
p. 355. Nomina et Tituli Incumbentium London.

_p. 360.

X. Letters concerning Bp. Henmavv, of whom an Ac-
count is given by White, Bp. of Peterborough, and
of Dr. Simon Lowth, Bp. of Chefter. P..371. The
ABp. of Canterbury requeues the Degree of B. D. or
LL.D. for Simon Lowth, late of Clare Hall, to qua-
lify him for the Deanry of Rochefter.

XI. Degradatio Gul. Prinn Oxon. Gratiae public,
datse Danieli Comiti de Nottingham et Fran. Gaftriil
Epo. Ceftrienfi ab Acad. Cant. 1721. for their DeT
fences of Christianity, p, 375,

VOL. XXVII.

I. Copies of Letters during Dr. Jegon's Vicechancellor-
fhip in 1600, to the Chancellor and others"1, chiefly
concerning Difputes with the Town. p. 1.

II. Particulars relating to the Election of Matters of
' Catharine Hall in 1635 and 1657. p. 39.

III. Complaints of the Fellows of Jefus College againft
their Mafter, Dr. Andrews, in 1626. p. 53.

IV. Particulars relating to a Vifltation in Emanuel Col-
lege in 1592, and to the Foundation of a Scholarfhio
by Harris 1590. p. 60. The Statute of Removal
difpenfed with in 1626. p. 6y,

V. Concerning a Reformation of the Statutes of St,
John's College in Dr. Whitaker's Time (1588) with
the CommifTion ad Vifitand. 18 Eliz. p. J^.

VI. An Account of the Proceedings in a controverted
Election to the Mafterfhip of St. John's College, be-
tween

» See above Vol. XXIV. p. 34J.

C 4,

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tween Dr. Lane and Mr. Holdfworth, 1693. p. 95.
And of ionie Difturbances there in 1647. P- 109-
VII. Letters concerning the Univerfity of Cambridge,
from 1579 t0 ^4- taken from the Archives, p. 131.
Inftructions for the Clergy or Georpe. Cant. 1620.
II J. bcargil's Recantation, Expulfion, Abfolution, &c.
1668 n. p. 143. Orders for the Scholars at the King's
coming to Cambridge in 1614 with the Count Pala-
tine, p. 145. Middleton Re&ory appropriate united
to the Vicarage, arid veiled in the Univerfity by Sir
Hcniy Spelman0, Dr. Jo. Cofin Vicechancellor.

IX. The Compofnion of Standground Vicarage, Co.
Hunt. 1 61 5. p. 149.

X. The Charter and Endowment of Trinity College in
Cambridge, 38 Hen. VIII. p. 153.

XL Fundatio Ledlurse Arabics per Thoiram Adams
Mil. et Baron, an. 1666. p. 193.

XII. The Bifhop of Ely's Return of his Clergy to the
ABp. of Cant, in 1560. e MS. C. C. C. C. Mifc. IV.
p. 197.

XIII. The Copy of a Letter to the Univerfities, about
Scholars taking the Oath of Conformity, &c. before
Degrees in 1604. p. 203.

XIV. A Lift of Univerfity Preachers from 1604 tcr
1698, fubfcribed with their own Karnes, p. 207. with
a Catalogue of Inceptors and Bachelors of Arts, from
1620 to 1639. P- 22I#

XV. Letters concerning St. John's College, Sir Ralph
Hare's Benefa&ion, &c. — or the Univerfity, from
1620 to 1628. p. 257.

XVI. The Univerfity Cafe at large, relating to Printing,
by Mr. James Tabor, that excellent Regifter, about
162 1, but the Appendix being imperfect is not co-
pied, p. 279.

XVII. Particulars concerning the King's Divorce, &c.

taken

* See Matters' Hilt, of C. C. C. C. p. 163. and App. LI. p. 7$.
0 Sec Sir Henry's Letter to Mr.Whelock in Vol. XIV. p. 73.

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taken from a ' Copy of Records of certaine Ambafia-
dors, &c. (inter Archiva Acad.) by the late K. Hen.
VIII. to the Emperor, the French King, the King of
Scots, &c.' p. 301. With a Communication between
the Lord Legate's Grace and the Queen's Almoner
on that Head, and a Proclamation for abolifhing
Holydays, with Cardinal Pole's Addrefs to the
Houfe of Lords upon his Arrival in 1554. p. 312.

XVIII. Particulars concerning Trinity Hall, St. Ed-
ward's and St. John's Churches in Cambridge, &x.

V-3l7>

XIX. The laft Will of Mr. Francis Robins, of Sutton
Valence in Kent, Clerk, late Fellow of St. John's Col-
lege, wherein he bequeaths a confiderable Eftate to
that Society for the purchafe of Advowfons, dat. 7
July, 1720. p. 329.

XX. Particulars concerning the Church of Peterbo-
rough, &c. from MSS. of Bp. Kennet. p. ^y.

XXI. Thomas Earl's Note BookP, with the Courfes
taken with the Puritans and Papifts from 1364 to
1600, e MS. Epi. Eliens. p. 387.

XXII. An Account of Ejectments of the Parochial Cler-
gy from 1643 to 1647. P- 39$- from lne Books of the
Committee for plundered Minifters for Cambrido-e-
fhire and Cambridge, &c. and from the E. of Man-
chefter'.s Original Books, late of Dr. Williams, p. 441.

VOL. XXVIII.

I. A£ta et Inftrumenta ad Ecclefiam et Diocef. Eliens.
pertinent, p.i. viz. de Fundatione Epifcopatus. Vitse
Hervei et Nigelli Epifc. Succeflio Epifc. p. 30. Ap-
propriatio Eccles. de Beche et Caldecote, A. D. 1 197.
p. 34. Dotatio Vicariae de Hilton Sti Andreas 141 8.
p. 36. Compofitio inter Prior, et Conv. de Barnwell
et Abbat. ct Sorores de Waterbeache pro Decimis

p See an Account of the Author and Book in Strype's Ann. Vol.
I. p. 178. and Life of Grindal, p. 97, 8, 120.

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1303. p. 41. Compofitio inter Proprietaries et Vi-
car, de Chefterton. p. 52. Compofitio inter Eccles.
Sti Edwardi et Sti Johan. Cant. 1294, with their
Union and Transfer to Henry VI. A. R. 24. p. 57.
Ordinatio Fundat. Hofpital. Sti Johannis et Marie
Magdalenas, et unionis eorundem 1409. p. 65. Ele-
ctio Prioriofe de Ickleton 1444. p. 80. Appropria-
te Rectorise de Barton 1267. p. 89. De Weft W rat-
tinge Nic. Bp. of Ely. p. 91. De Lynton 1450. p.
94. De Baffingbourne 1400. p. 96.

II. Teftamentum^Tho. Markaunti Coll. C. C. Soc.
cum Catal. Librorum eidem Coll. donat. ob. 19 Nov.
1439, *° not t^ie R-e&or °f Foulmire who refigned
that Living 1445. p. 106.

III. Tranfcripta e Codic. MS. Tho. Markaunt, de
Chartis quibufdam conceff. Univerfitat. Cant, et
Oxon. p. 114.

IV. Regiftrum Lanceloti Epi. Eliens. ab an. 1609 ad
1 61 8, ab originali defumpt. p. 128.

V. Mr.WorthingtonV Collections relating to the Dio-
cefe of Ely, in a Sort of Parochial Hiftory, taken from
Inquifnions, Records, Monuments, &c. p. 148.

VI. Tranfcripts relating to the Diocefe of Ely (Thirlby,
Mey, Card. Pole, Bonner, Cox, Wifdom) from Mr.
John Tabor's Book, depofited in the Rcgifter's Office
of the Univerfity, by his Father James labor, p. 284.
"With fome Particulars concerning the Univerfity, the
Vifitation of King's Coll. 12 Eliz. p. 255. Of St.
John's Coll. 1573. The Endowment of the Vicarage
of Granchefter in 1380. p. 282. Regiftrum Tho.

Thirlby

p See above Vol. XXVI. p. 87.

i Sen of Dr. John Worthington, Mailer of Jefus College, and of
Mary his Wife, was baptized at Ditton, where the latter was Rector
on ]an. 26, 1663, He was afterwards Fellow of Peterhoufe, but
declined taking the Oaths at the Revolution. He publifhed his Fa-
ther's Difcourfes on Chriftian Love, with a Preface 1691. Ob. Lond<
AD, 1739. Vol. XXXIV. p. 279.

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Thirlby Epi. Eliens. 1554. p. 284. with fome prior
and fubfequent Inftruments.

VII. Notes from Dr. Gofling's Diary, Matter of Caius
Coll. with an Account of his Eftate and Funeral.
Ob. 21 Oct. 1626. p. 340.

VIII. Notes from Tho. Caius of Oxford, his £xamen
of Dr. Caius of Cambridge his Booke, e MS. Coll.
Trin. p. 346.

IX. Letters to Dr. Chadderton, Mafter of Queen's Coll.
afterwards Bp. of Chefter, from Robert E. of Lei-
cester to whom he was Chaplain 1569, Lord Burgh-
ley, Sir Fran. Walfingham, and others of the Privy-
Council, in 15S0, &c. concerning the Ecclefiaftical
Commiffion in that Diocefe, wherein he acted with the
E. of Derby r, &c. p. 350.

X. Letters to the Bp. of Chefter, E. of Derby, &c.
from the Lords of the Privy Council, concerning the
Diocefe of Chefter, from 1580 to 1585. p. 388.

XI. The State of the Diocefe of Chefter in the Time of
Bp. Bridgman 161 9, from Sir Wm. Dawes's Papers,
p. 424.

XII. ChartaFundat.A11l2eTrin.dat. 20 Nov. 24Ed.HI.
with a Letter of Tobias Ruftat to the Vicechancellor
1666. p. 426.

XIII. Letters from Oliver Cromwell, Dr. Pink Vice-
chancellor of Oxford, the E. of Pembroke, Gen. Har-
rifon, Capt. Flotham, Sir Jo. Coke, &c. from 1641.
p. 430. Of the Battles, at Gainfborough and at Dun-
bar. Of erecting a College at Durham, Vicars of
Chippenham, &c. from Originals in Dr. Williams's
Hands, p. 440.

XIV. Notes from the MS. Life of Sir Jo. Packington
of Weft wood in Com. Wigorn. in the Time of James
J. p. 442.

In

r Of the Perfecutiori of the Roman Catholicks by the Bp. of
Chefter, &c. See Concertatio Eccleiia: Cathol, Lib. particularly of

the Wonhingtons, Alans, related to the Card. &c.
o

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In loofe Papers in this Vol. are Lifts of the Fellows,
&c. in King's Hall and Michael Houfe.

Two Letters from Br. Willis, Efq-, to Mr. Baker in
1 7 19, 20, giving an Account of what Bifhops Wills are
to be met with in the Regifters of Lambeth, and in the
Prerogative Office.

A Grant of Arms to Dr. Caius from the Herald's Of-
fice, with the Arms of Gonvil and Caius College, 3 Jan.
3 Eliz. by Mr. Anftis.

Some Notes from MS. in the Harleian Library.

VOL. XXIX.

I. Statuta Coll. Div. Johan. Evang. edita Johan. Epo.
Roffenfi una cum reliquis Executoribus, dat. n Jul.
1530. p. 1.

II. Subfcriptiones Prsefector. Profeflbr. Socior. &c. ab
an. 1662 ad an. 1 7 19. p. in.

III. A Claufe of Sir Tho. Wendy's Will, concerning
the Endowment of the Vicarage of Haflingfield, pro-
bat. 10 Jan. 1673. p. 127.

IV. Statuta Coll. Trim Cant, edita a Vifitatoribus an.
2 Eliz. p. 131. Lkeras Phil, et Marias de Regimine
Coll. Trin. p. 179.

V. Mr. Cha. Rofe's Will, wherein he bequeaths to the
Minifter of St. Andrew's Parifh in Cainb. 10 1. per
ann. out of the Rent of the Faulcon Inn, for a Com-
memoration Sermon, &c. an. 1664. p. 181.

VI. Particulars concerning Dr. Perne, Matter of Peter-
houfe, in Part from a printed Paper, with a Cata-
logue of Medals given to the Univerfity, ob. 1589.
p.183.

VII. Particulars concerning Dr. Peter Baro and his Fa-
mily \ p. 185.

VIII. An Account of Sir Nathan Wright, Lord Keeper

of

' See an Account of him by Strype in his Annals, Vol. IV. No.
160. p. 229, &c. and in the Life of Whitgift, paffim.

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of the Great Seal, fent by Dr. Tho. Littel to Mr.
Laur. Eachard. p. 187.
]X. A Copy of a Paper left by Mr. John Hampden at
his Death in 1698, by the fame.- p. 191.

X. Letters from Mr. Sam. Hartlib to Dr.Worthington,
from 1655 t0 i66i,on Matters of Literature, p. 193.

XI. Collectiones e veteri Chartulario Coll. Caii, Statuta,
&c. Hiftoriola ejufdem Coll. a Doctore Gofling
confcripta ab an. 1660 ad an. 1678. p. 263.

XII. Johan. Caii Annales Coll. integri ad an. 1537. dc-
inde extract, et abbreviat. p. 295.

XIII. Particulars concerning the Church, Diocefe of
Ely, and County of Cambridge, from Mr. Worthing-
ton's Papers, Ely Farthings, &x. p. 249. 325.

XIV. Copies of Letters (moftly original) from Lord
Burghley, the E. of Leicefter, ABps. Parker, Whit-
gift, and Bancroft, Lord North. Rob. E. of Salifbury,
Hen. E. of Northampton, Sir Edw. Cooke, Sir Walt.
Raleigh, Dr. Neile, &c. concerning Univerfity Bufi-
nefs, with Mandates from Q^ Elizabeth and K. James,
&c. p. 339.

XV. Literas Patentes circa Officium Profeflbris Ma-
thematics, fundat. per Hen. Lucas Arm. 15 Car. II.
p. 403.

XVI. Bp. Fimer's Foundation of four Fellows and two
Scholars in St. John's Coll. 12 Hen. VIII. p. 405.

XVII. An Account of Hartman Schedels Chron. Chro-
nicarum, printed in 1493. p. 408.

XVIII. Memorand. of the Foundation of the Senate
Houfe on 22 June, 1722 p. — ■ to the end.

V O L. XXX.

I. Extract. eRegiftro Eliens. Arundel, incip. an. 1374,
viz. Appropnationes Ecclefiarum Prioratui Eliens.
p. r. ProceiTus habitus in Curia Cant, pro obedien-
tia Cancellarii Univ. Cantab, p. 5. Breve ad orand.
pro Comite Buckynghamye et Exercitu tranfeunt.

verfus

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verfus partes Britan. 4 Ric. II. p. 19. Appropriatio
Ecclefiae de LongaStanton, an. 1380. p. 20.

II. e Regiftro Gray, an. 1454. Inftitutiones.

p. 25. Appropriatio de Stowe Quye. p. 56. Man-
datum Domini Cant, ad inquirend. de Libris D. Re-
ginald! Pecok, p. 59. Inftallatio Willielmi Epifc.
Eliens. p. 64. Compofitio inter Coll. Sti Petri Cant,
et Vicar, de Triplowe, 10 Feb. 1474. p. 6y. Ada
contra Lollardos. p. 70. Electiones Priorum, &c.
p. j 5. Fundatio Cantarise Willi. Staundon de Wym-
pole. p. 84. Et Cantarise de Joh. Anfty de Stowe
Quye. p. 90. Ordines celebrati 1454, &c. p. 94.
Taxatio Ecclefiarum Eliens. 1291. p. 95. Nomina
Patronorum Ecclefiar. et Vicar. Dioc. Elien. p. 101.

III. e Regiftro Weft 1515. Charles D. of

Suffolk, appointed Steward and high Bailiff of the Ifle
for Life, by Patent 1515. p. 107. Admifllo Mri
Alcoke in Cuftodem Coll. Jefu Cant. 15 15. Refigna-
tio ejufdem 151 6. p. 108. Inftitutiones, &c. Forma
Juramenti pro Opinionibus Lutheranis non tenend.
p. 119. Appropriatio Ecclefia? de Eltifte. p. 123.
Teftament. Willi. Thornborough Mri Capellse B.
Mariee in Mari, dat. 4 Aug. 1525. p. 124, Ordines
Celebrati. p. 126.

|V. . . e Regiftro Goodrich et Thirlby, an.

1534. Vifitationes Monafteriorum 1534. p. 127,8.
Inftitutiones, &c. Mandatum pro Declaratione pre-
tenfse JurifdicTionis per Romanum Pontif. ufurpatas.
p. 1 30. Injunctiones Epifc. de Imaginibus, &c. 1541.
p. 133. Breve Regium pro Collcccione fummarum
Decirnarum 20 Hen. VIII. p. 142. Fundatio Can-
tarise de Baburgham per Dom. Joh. de Scalariis, con-
firmat, per H. de Baliham. p. 146. Fundatio Canta-
rias Ecclefias Rotund. Cant, per Joh. de Shelford de
Cant. A.D. 1313. p. 147. Cantaria in Haftyngfield.
Licentia Regis Rob. de Scales dare Aldermanno et
Fratribus Gilde Afiumpdonis B. Marie terras ad in-

veniend.

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veniend. Capellanum, &c. 18 Edv. III. p. 150. Can-
taria Sti Trinitatis de Over, per Joh. de Burton ec
alios fundat. 139 t. p. 151. Mandat. Archiep. Cant,
pro Proceflione faciend. 1542. p. 152. Liters Re-
gis, for the Ufe of certayne godlye Prayours and
Suffrages fet forthe in the Englifhe Tonge 1544. p.
153. Liters tranfmiffe ab Archiep. ad Epum Eliens.
for the Ufe of a very good and godlie Proceffion fete
forth in the Englifhe Tonge, %y Hen. YIN. p. 156.
Reftitutio Ecclefiafl. Jurifdictionis Domino Epo.
Eliens. 1457. Liters Dominorum de privatis Con-
ciliis, for the removal of Images, &c. 1547. p. 160.
Appropriatio Ecclefis Sti Benedicti Coll. Corp.Chrifti
Cant. 1578. p. 1 62. Jus Patronatus Vicar, de Abyng-
ton Parva, in favour of Mich. Dalton, Efq-, in 1608.
p. 164. Eleclio Martini Heton S.T.P. Epifc. Eliens.
1599. P-.i66. Lancelot! Andrews 1609. Nic. Fel-
ton 1 61 8. Johan. Buckeridge 1628. Fran. White
1631. p. 170, 1.

V. ■ e Regiflro Bourghchier an. 1443. Bulla

Tranflationis per Eugenium Papam. p. 172. Ap-
propriatio Ecclefie de Kyngflon. p. 175. Breve Re-
gium pro Parliament, tenend. Cantab. 1446. p. 177,
Inflallatio Epifc. p. 178. Inquifitio de jure Patro-
natus Papworth-Anneys. p. 180. Breve Regium pro
Convocatione. p. 183. & 190. Pro cavendis Deci-
mis cum Ecclefiis exempt, p. 187. Appropriatio Ec-
ckfiar. de Lynton et Chefterton. p. 189. Deputatio
Senefcalli Generalis Infills Humph. Bougchier Arm.
Nepoti. p. 192. Cognationis fpiritual. inftantia
memorabilia a Pontif. Roman, difpenf. p. 193. Com-
miffio ad Goalem deliberand. apud Ely. p. 194,
Conceffio quatuor Damarum per ann. Prior, et Capir.
Eliens. 1454. p. 179. Terra, &c. Abbar. Sti. Petri
Salopie concefi". per Regem. Coll. fuo novo 29 Hen.
VI. p. 198. Commilfio ad augment. Vicar, de Hy-
lion S. Etheldrede. p. 202. Statuta Cantaris in

Capella

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Capella B. Mariae fuper Cofteram Maris renovat. per
Epum. p. 203.

VI. e Regifl.ro Goodrich, Thirlby, Cox. A

Proclamation for the great Bible in Englifh to be had
in every Church, p. 208. Fundatio Cantarise in Bar-
renton per Jo. Almond 1471. p. 210. Argumentatio
Vicar, de Caldecote 153J. SupprelTio altarium in
Ecclefiis Parochialibus 1550. p. 213. Incipit Regift.
Thirlby. p. 216. Dominus Joh. Hullier Vicar of
Baburgham deprived and burnt for Herefy 1555. p.
219. Mandata pro Convocation;.- 1553 & 55- P-226,
&c. Mandat. ad Preces publicas, ProcelT. pro Pace
ineunda. p. 233. Inllitutiones tempore Cox 1562.
p. 235. Letters to the Bp. of Ely, for collecting
Contributions for the Repair of St. Paul's Cathedral
1563. p. 249. Proceedings againft William Woll-
ieye of Wilbich for Herefy 1555, and againft Rob.
Pygott, both excommunicated, &x. p. Z56. A Dif-
pute between the Mafter and Fellows of St. John's
College terminated by the Vifitor 1542. p. 260. Or-
der for the better Increafe of Learning in inferior
Minifters, &c. p. 265. Procurations Epi. ratione
Vifitationis. p. 267.
VII. Memoranda Coll. Corp. Chrifti Cant, tempore Joh.
Botwright Mri i443t« P- 271- De Hidis Terrarum
pertinent. Reparationi magnarum Pohtium Cant. p.
283. Letters and Orders from the E. of Manchester,
&c. for Ejectments of Fellows 1643, 4* P- 285.
Mr. Perkins of Chrift Coll. his common Place, p. 292.
Notes of Mr. Gray's Sermon 1586, p. 294 The
Petition" of Corp. Chrifti Coll. to the City of London
for Affiftance in Building their Chapel 158 1. p. 295.
The Chancellor's Letter for the Oath of Allegiance in
1610. p. 296. Status Ciftarum Acad. 1556. p. 298.

VIII. The

« See Matter's Hifr. Coil. •>. 4^.

i Frintcd in the Ap::ti;d. \} iii.l CV.l. N. XXXVI p. 60.

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VIII. The lad Will of William Skelman of Haflins-

o

field, Founder of a Chantry there in 1494. p. 301.

IX. Licentia Regia fuper Unione duar. Rectoriar. de
Houghton Conquer! et Guildable in Com. Bedford.
13 Car. I. p. 308.

X. Teft amen turn egregii viri Gul. Noy, Attornat. Ge-
neralis, 3 Jun. 1634. — notat. dignum. p. 309.

XI. Forma Licentias conceffe ab Epo. Winton. unius
Sedilis in Ecclefia Farneham. p. 310.

XII. Epiftola Regis Hen. VIII. ad Thomam et Law-
rentium Cardinales, judices fuos a Pontifice conftitu-
tos. p. 311.

XIII. The King's Letter to the Univerfity for the Ap-
pointment of a Profeffor of Modern Hiftory, 16 May,
1724-, wherein mention is made of the late Appoint-
ment of Whitehall Preachers with Salaries, and the
entitling the Members of the Univerfity to a Share of
the Royal Patronage, p. 329. With the Addrels of
the Univerfity on that Occafion, dat. 19 May, 1724.

XIV. Queen Anne's Letters Patent and Confirmation of
the Statutes of the Altronomy ProfcfTor, of the Foun-
dation of Dr. Plume, with a Grant from Trin. Coll. of
a Room and Obfervatory, &c. in 1705. p. 333.

XV. A Collection of Letters Mandatory from King
Charles I. and II. King James II. William and Mary,
for Degrees, &c. p. 339.— For taking the Colleges of
Magdalen, Emanuel and Sidney into the Cycle of
Proctors 1661. p. 34.0. — For the Degree of A. M.
for Alban Francis 1686. p. 341. — Lord Dartmouth
recommended by the King for Chancellor 1 638. p.
342. with Letters from Chancellors, &c. p. 349. —
The Duke of Somerfet's on being elected Chancellor,
20 Mar. 168;". p. 354.

XVI. Mr. John Bagford's* Notes concerning Printing,
Printers, &c. ob. 5 May, 1716. p. 357.

XVII. Let-

~- See Letters from Mr. Bagford to Mr. Hearne in his Preface to
D Lelana's

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XVII. Letters concerning Univerfity Bufinefs from 37
Hen. VIII. to 1617. p. 369. — Lord LumleyV Let-
ter about giving Books to the Publick Library, 1587.
p.372. — From Loid Burghley about Bambridge and
Johnibn. p. ^73- — From Sir Francis Bacon, in An-
Aver to Congratulations on being made Chancellor in
1 61 7. — Bulla Greg. V. de Denariis et Decimis. p.

375-

XVII I. Of the Bifhoprick of Durham from 1660 to
1667, with Bp. Cofin's Rents and Charitable Dif-
burfemcnts there, from Dr. Brady's MS. Caii Coll. p.

377-

XIX. The "Will of Benjamin Laney, late Bp. of Ely,

probat. 20 Feb. 1674. p. 381.

XX. The Kind's Letters Patent for a Profeffbr of Mo-
dern Hiftory, with the Appointment of James Harris
A.M. the firft Profcffor 1724. p. 385.

XXI. Particulars concerning Magdalen College, in
Letters from the E. of Suffolk 1636, &c. p. 391.

XXII. . St. John's College, chiefly

about the Mafterlhip in 1633. P- 4°5-
XXIII. ■ Caius College, on Dr.

Batchcroft's Election to the Mailerfhip. p. 411.

XXIV. < > of the Statute concerning leaving

Emanuel College and ibme MSS. p. 41 5. Extract
from Dr. Proby's Will concerning his Benefaction to
Jefus College, 1678. p. 421.

XXV. Epitaphs, Infcriptions, &c. p. 423, 33, 49. —
Status Aul. Trin. in Cant. 37 Hen. VIII. p. 441.

XXVI. Epift. Senatus Cant. Carolo Vic.Townfhend pro
Statua Georgii. I. p. 445.

XXVII. Genealogies of Bp. Davenant, Andrew Bing

Hebrew

Leland's Colle&anea, p. 58, &c. And his Character in SirThoma3
More's Life by Hearne, Pref. p. 21,2, Append, to Robert of Glo-
ceil. No. IV. Sec.

See Hacket's Life of Williams, p. u.

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Hebrew ProfefTor, and Ch. Wright ProfciTor of Ara-
bick. p. 451.
XXVIII. Bp. Conn's intended Benefaction to a Senate
Houfe and Library in 1668, according to a Model in
the Univerfity Library.

V O L. XXXI.

I. Particulars from the MSS. of Corp. Chrifti Coll.
Camb. in the Time of James II. carefully copied cut
from the Originals by Mr. John Cory, then Frllow of
that Ploufe, by the Direction of Dr. Tcnifon (after-
wards ABp. of Canterbury) when the Matter (Dr.
Spencer) was an old Man, and it was feared the Col-
lege and MSS. might fall into the Hands of Papiils z.
See more Vol. XXXIII. p. 27, 50. It begins with a
Declaration concerning the Progeny, with the Manner
and Trade of the Life, and bringing up of that molt
Rev. Father in God Tho. Cranmer, late ABp. of Can-
terbury, and bv what Order and Means he came to

his Preferment bv ■ Morice. p. 1. Nomina

monitor, comparend. in Convocatione 1547. p. 4.
Rpifcopi ex Acad. Cant, ab an. 1500 ad 1570. p. 6.
The Karnes of the Subscribers to the Judgment of
the Convocation concerning General Councils 1536.
p. 9. Petition of the Fellows of Magdalen Coll.
Oxun. againft Dr. Oglethorp, Prefident, 1550. p. 11.
Articles exhibited by the lower Houfe of Convocation
to the Upper, for regulating the Church 1555. p. 2 i .
Order for advancing the Archb:fhoprick of" Canter-
bury to rccol. per Arm, 2 & 3 Phil. <k Mar. p. 26.
The Bp. of Winchefter's Letter about lefigning

his

7 The Volume referred to, is a large Folio, which was purchafed
of the KxcciKcr^ of his Son, Mr. John Cory, Vicar of Waterbeach,
by Dr. Ralph Perkins, Fellow of Qneen's Coll. and Prebendary of
)Vy. and by him given to the Library of that Cathedral. See the
Character of Mr. Cory in Mailers' Hift. Cell, v. 166. 1*0. 347, 368,

D '

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his Bifhoprick. p. 27. The Vifitation of Eton Coll.
1561. p. 29. The Vifitors of the Univerfity ap-
pointed 1 Eliz. p. 32. An Order of the ABp. of
Cant. 1586. Ancient Deeds of Monafteries, &c. p.
34. With many Letters to and from the ABp. ex
Epift. Principum et illullrium proborumque Viro-
rum (Cat. C. C. C. C. p. 29.) Collectiones ex Libro
Mifcell. A. p^ 89. Cat. B. The Coronation of Edw.
VI. p. 105. BaptizatioEliz. Regin. io Sept. 25 Hen.
VIII. p. 107. Seditions Papers from Chefter. p. no.
From Mifcell. B. Status Familias Card. Poli. p. 115.
Extract from Mifc. C. p. 117. Synodalia. p. 121.
A Diicourfe concerning Romanifts by Heath, D. D.
The Queen's Injunctions about keeping Churches
clean, p. 124. Extracts from, Quse concernunt Cran-

merum. p. 127. from, Quae concernunt Gar-

dinerum Epum Line. p. 128. Epift. Imperatoris ad
Pontif. Roman, pro libero Concilio. p. 130. Bp.
Jewel's Opinion in Cafu Matrimonii, p. 143. Mifc.
A. — A Peace with Scotland 145. ibid. Tract. Ja-
cobi Pilkington. p. 147. Cranmer's Declaration in
his own Defence, p. 150.

II. The King's, Bifhop'p and Church of Ely's Licences
for founding Michael Floufe, 1324, with other Acts
and Instruments concerning it. p. 151. The Statutes
of that Houfe of the fame Year, being the firft given
to any College in Cambridge, thofe of Peterhouie be-
ing of a later Date, although an earlier Foundation,
cum Catal. Sociorum a Charta vet. p. 160.

III. Petitions of the Univerfity and Town of Cambridge,
for relief of Grievances arifing from draining the
Fens 1 650 and 1653. P- I^1-

IV. Extracts of Graces from 1501 to 1542, being the
firft Regifter ot the Univerfity now remaining*, p. 163.

Letters

a Regilteis for Parifhes v/ere firft inftituiecl by Lord Cromwell,
jhe King's Vicar Genenil. r 5 3 S -

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Letters to Kings and Nobles, ordered to be inferred
in a Regifter 1529. p. 187. Papal Privileges con-
firmed 1537. p. 196.

V. A Copy of Mr. Will. Wort's Will in 1709, wherein
he bequeaths confiderable Eftates to the Univerfity.
p. 203.

VI. Extracts from the Regifter of Ford ham, Bp. of Ely,
in 1388. His Oath to the Pope is very lingular, p.
207. Institutions to Livings, &c. p. 209. Appro-
priate Ecclefias de Longa-Stanton. p. 226. The
Names of the Prior and Monks of Ely at the Metro-
political Vifitation in 1401. p. 228. Inquifitio de

Patronatu Ecclefiae de Hynton 1395. p. 232. .

de Hadenham 1401. p. 234.

VII. Tranicripts from Mr. Tabor the Publick Regif-
ter's Book, viz. Sir Edwyn Sandys's Will for found-
ing a Metaphyfical Lecture, 31 Oct. 1629. p. 239,
Office of Bedeifhip, 19 Feb. 1554. Precedency of
the Vicechancellor. Orders on the King's coming to
Camb. in 1614. Liters Patentes Lectoris Juris Ci-
vilis 1666. lnftructions how to appeal from the
Vicechancellor to Delegates. Of the building of the
Peft-Houfes, St. Mary's Church, Steeple, &c.

VIII. from another Book of the fame, con-
cerning making the Town a City, with Objections
and Anfwers, 1616. p. 252. Petition of the Town,
&c. de Dominio Soli Villas Cantab. &c.

IX. Wills and other Particulars concerning the Family
of Alington of Horfeheath, Camb. from 1445. p. 259.

X. Refignation of Offices, Livings, Preferments, &c.
from the Regifter of the Univerfity, from 1592. p.
261.

XI. Prefentations to Offices, &c. from the fame Regif-
ter, from 1628. p. 267.

XII. Inltrumenta Acad. Cant, circa Privilegia quaedam.
Exemptiones a Tallagio, dzc. 1420. p. 270. Inqui-
fitio circa Kyn^efdich, 22 Edw, III.

D 7 XIII, DO

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XIII. De Teftamento et Funere Hcrvici de Stanton in
Templo St. Mich. Cant. 1327. p. 272.

XIV. Scatuta Coil. Trin. Cant, a Rege Edwardo dat. 8
Nov. 1552. p. 277.

XV. Hiftoriola Joflclini de Matthseo Archiep. Cant.
MS. Coll. Corp. Chrift.b This differs in ibme Par-
ticulars from the printed Copy. Hanc Hiftoriolam
a pagina 71 conicripfit (fuo Judicio uius) in Teftifi-
cationem obfervantias fuss Joannes Jolfclin us A.M. et
Thorns Jofielini Militis filius, prasdictique Reveren-
diffimi a Lingua Latina Amanuenfis, et etiam ab ea-
dem Secretarius.

XVI. An Account of the Antiquitates Britannia? c, for-
merly Mr. Wharton's Book, now Lord Sunderland's,
wherein are inferted original Charters, Letters, &c.
with marginal MS. Notes, moitly by John Parker,
Son to the ABp. to whom the Book had formerly be-
longed, p. 315.

XVII. Notes from Sir Roger Twyfden's Copy of the
fame Book (now in the PofTeffion of Sir Tho. Sea-
bright ) with a Map of Cambridge-, where the Scites
of the Hollies, Monafteries and Colleges are defcribed,
in 1574, which are wanting in ail the other Copies.

P- 333-

XVIII. A MS. Table of Conlecrations and Confirma-
tions by ABp. Parker, p. 337. With farther Notes
on Matthaeum, &c. p. 362, 66.

XIX. Extracts from a MS. called the Hiftory or Me-
moirs of Framlingham and Loes Hund. in Suffolk,
by R. Hawes, Steward to Pemb. Hall, in 1712. p. 339.

XX. Copies of two Papers concerning ABp. Parker's
Confecration, ex Archivis Archiep. Cant. p. 362.

XXL The Preface to Queen Mary's Statutes given to
Trin. Coll. 1 Phil. & Mar. p. 363.

XXII. Ap-

b This was tranflated intoEnglifh with fcandalous Annotations in
1574.. See MaflerV Hid. Col!. C. p. 112.

Sec a fall Account of this Book in the Ililt. above, p. 97, 8.

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XXII. Appellatio Galfridi Cuper, Vicar. Sci Botolphi

r 1432- p. 365-

XXI II. Extracts of Calenders in the Prerogative Office,
where to find Wills of ancient Divines from 1660 to
1714. Quaedam de Fundat. Coll. Sti Petri.

V O L. XXXII.

I. Original Letters from Lord Burghley to his Son, Sir
Robert Cecil, concerning Affairs of State, from 1593
to 1598. p. 1.

II. Copies of Letters from Queen Elizabeth to foreign
Princes, &c. in Latin, from 1569 to 1585. p. 19. — -
In one of thefe (he recommends Rob. Colfhill, one
of her Penfioners (who is much in love) to her dear
Friend Mils Marg. Heyld, a Perlbn of extraordinary
Accompliihments, for a Flufband in ftrong Terms,
18 May, 1576. p. 69. And in another (he thanks
her Mother, who is a Widow, for her Difpofition to
comply with her Requeft, deiires her to haften the
Execution, and promifes both her Favour, when they
come into England, 4 Oct. 1576. p. 74,

III. The Sicknefs and Death of Prince Henry d. p.
129.

IV. Lord Arundel's Apology in his Reftraint, for tak-
ing the Honour of Comes Imperii without the Queen's
leave e. p. 141.

V. The Forerunner of Revenue on the Duke of Buck-
ingham and the Marquis of Hamilton, for poyfoning
King James, by Dr. Geo. E_diiham, Phyfician to King
James'", p. 153.

VI. Collections irom a Manufcript, intituled, Regiffrum
vagum tempore Joan. Jegon Epi. Norwic. &c. This

Book

J Printed in Peck's Defid. Curiofa, Vol. I. Lib. VI. N. 1.

•■ Printed ibid. Vol. II. Lib. VII. X. 19. p. 50.

f This was printed in .fto. 1642. See Sir Hen. Wotton's Work.:,
p. 224. and Lloyd's State Worthies, p. 6^4, 5.

n ;

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Book contains Letters to and Tranfacf ions of the Bp.
of Norwich, from 1603 to 161 3. It is now in the
Roya! J library at Cambridge, being brought thither
with Bp. More's Books, but undoubtedly belongs to
to the See of Norwich, p. 153.

VII. A Copy of a Leafe of Haielingfield Rectory, from
the /\bbey of St. Marv at York in 1520, granted to

^ Dr. Wendy, 38 Hen.VIII. p 185.

VIII. The firft Plan of Trinity College, with the Names
of their firft Fellows, their Stipends, &c. 37 Hen.
VIII. p. 189. Petitions to the King, &c. in 1728.

IX. Copies of Letters concerning the Maffacre of Paris
by Sir Francis Walfingham, 1570, 1, 2. p. 195.

X. Two Indentures concerning Part of the Churchyard
of St. Mary, 15 Edw. IV. and 40 Eliz. p. 210.

XI. Cantias Status ab adventu Casfaris (verfibus de-
fcriptus, per Barthol. Clerk, printed in Lord Sunder-
land's Copy of Antiquitates Britan. and in no other.
p. 216.

XII. Statuta qusedam Coll. Regal. Cant, fpecimen tan-
tum. p. 219.

XIII. Particulars concerning Michael Houfe and
Ovyng's Inn, (where Bifhop's Hoftle now Hands)
with Houles purchaied for the Scite, &c. tempore Ed.
II. p. 231.

XIV. Statuta Coll. Reginal. Cant, ab Elizabetha Fun-
datrice. p. 241. Interpretationes Statutor. p. 272.

XV. Statuta Ecclefiie Eliens. 1666. cum aliis ad eand.
Eccles. perninentibus. p. 285. A Letter of Char. 1.
1637, for preventing Corporate Bodies turning Leales
of Years into Lives. Of the Foundation of Peter-
houfe College, &c. Indenture for ABp. Morton's
Obit. dat. 8 Feb. 1503.

XVI. Regiftrum Chartarum, Librorum, &c. in Regi-
ftrario Acad. Cant. p. 321.

XVII. The Will and Charities of William Grirnbaldfon,
M.D. 1725. p. 335.

XVIII. The

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XVIII. The Roll of* Ely, with the Hiflory of the
Knights and Monks g, upon a long Roll of Parch-
ment, in the Middle or Body of which is the follow-
ing Infcription, ' Nomina et Infignia Militum, &c*
with the Knights and their Arms (in Margin) depict-
ed in Colours, p. 339.

XIX. Collectiones e veteri Chartulario Priorat. de
Thurgarton. p. 341.

XX. Extracts of Letters from Mr. Jof. Mede, Fellow
of Chrift Coll. to Sir Martin Stuteville, of Dalham,
in Suffolk, from 1621 to 1631, containing Univer-
fity News, &c. p. 35.1.

XXI. Ejectments from Trin. Coll. an. 1649, 5°> &c-

P- 395-

XXII. Collect, circa Domum Sti Michaelis e Libro
Otryngham Mri Coll. 1427. Inftruments of Foun-
dat. &c. 1324. Benefactors, Hift. Coll. p*40i.

XXIII. Original Letters to Mr. Anthon. Gilby, A.M.
Cant. 15 >5, by Puritans h. p. 427.

XXIV. — to ABp. Whitgift, e MS. Har-

ley. p. 449.

XXV. Particulars coucerning the Earls of Oxford and
Lord Chief Juftice Coke, ob. Sept. 3, 1634. p. 463.

XXVI. Extracts from Mr. Rich. Smith's Obituary,
from 1628 to 1675 j. p. 479.

XXVII. Letters to and from Mr. Roger Afcham, which
mould have been in the late Edition of his Englifh
Works, but they are not. The firlt is to Secretary
Petre in 1553, aD0Ut placing him in his Office at

Court.

B Publifhed in Bentham's Hid. p. 106. and Append. N. IV. and
jii Fuller's Church Hift. Lib. III. p. 168. from other Copies. See
Gent. Mag. 1779. p. 585.

h Sec Bale de Script. Britan. 725.

1 Publifhed by Mr. Peck in Defid. Curiofa, Vol.11. Lib. XIV,
p. 10. with lorae Account of the Author, who died Mar. 26, 1675,
xt. 8;.

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Court. The ftcond to Secretary Cecil in 1661, im-
ploring his Afliftance to recover a Leafe he had mort-
gaged to relieve the DiftrefTes of his Mother in Law.
The third to the fame, for recovering his Leafe from
Mr. Saville, the Queen having given him the Money
borrowed thereupon k. From Dr. Tho. Lever, Maf-
ter of St. John's Coll. 1551. From the fame. Feb. 2.
From John Hales. From the fame, 1551. From
John Cheke, 1552. p. 495.

XXVIII. Bp. Overall's and Dr. Rob. Scott's Epitaphs,
p. 511. Dr. Manwaring's Recantation, &c. p. 512,
526. — Mr. Edw. Elton. Of the flrange Curfe be-
longing to Sherburn Caftle1. Articuli Matrimonii
inter Carol. Princip. Wallias et Infant. Hifpan. &c.

XXIX. Notes from Mr. Richard Smith's Hiftory of
Printing and Printers1", with an Account of two an-
cient Alphabets in the Harleian Library, printed on
one Side of the Paper with wooden Blocks, as are the
old Pieces faid to be by Cofter, with a Date 1464.
p. 521. Concerning John Feltori 1628, and the
Murder of Mr. Tho. Scott 1626". p. 525

XXX. Notes from Bedel Ingram's Book, p. 529. with
a Renunciation of the Vicechancellorfhip in 1600. p.

533-

XXXI. A Letter from Mr. Roger Afcham to Dr. John

Seton °. p. 535.

XXXII. Mr. Richard Hill's Donation of Livings to
St. John's Coll. in 1723, with fome Account of him.

XXXIII. Let-

k The above will in fome'Meafure account for his Poverty, men-
tioned in his Life, p. 13, &c.

1 Printed from a MS. of Bp. More, now in the Royal Library, in
Dcfid. Curiofa, Part 11. Lib. XIV. N.VI.

m Concerning Printing, fee Strype's Ann. Vol. II. N, 151. p. 74,5 .

* See a printed Account Coll. Jo. N. 8, 9.

* Printed in Afchami Epift. Oxon. 1703, p. 68,

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XXXIII. Letters concerning the Collection for the
City of Geneva in 1603. p. 541. with ABp. Wake's
Letters to the Pallors and ProfeiTors there in 1721.

P- 549-
XXXIVr. Lord Falkland's Petition to Charles I. p.547.
An Account of Perlbns (lain or taken Prifoners at the
I fie of Rhe in 1627. Oliver's Presentation to Hough-
ton Conqueft in Bedfordfhire.

XXXV. The Will of Dr. Rob. Jenkin, Matter of St.
John's Coll. 1727. p. 551.

XXXVI. A Letter from Dr. Cofin (Bp. of Durham) in
1628. p. 553.

Loofe Papers in this Vol.

I. ABp. Bancroft's Eequeft of Books to Lambeth Li-
brary in 1610.

II. Qusedam de Hervico de Stanton.

III. An Account of fome ancient Wills in Prerog. Off.
IV. of fome modern ones by Jo. Le Neve.

V O L. XXXIII.

I. Hen. VIII's Commifiion, to the AmbalTadors, fent by
him to the Archduke of Auftria in 1523 p. p. 1.

II. Original Letters from Cardinal Woliey to Edw. Lee
the King's Almoner and AmbalTador to the Emperor,
with Instructions, p. 3.

III. A Specimen of Capgrave's Chronicle (from the
Creation to the Year 1417) dedicated to Edvv. IV. p.

23.

IV. Particulars concerning the Foundation of Fellow-
fhipsi Scholarfhips, &c. in Corp. Chrifti Coll. Camb.
p. 27.

V. — ■ Trinity College, &c. with

Realbns againtt the Grant for Wcftminlter School,
from the Paper Office, p. 51. Letters of the Drs.
Still and Whitgift to Lord Burleigh 1 58 1 . Of God-
frey
? Printed in Strype's Memorials, Vol. 1. p. 42, &c.

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frey Goodman, Bp. of Gloceiter, 1638. p. 6r. See
Vol. XXXVIII. p. 427, 8. and p. 135. below.

VI. A Letter to the Univerfity from Germany, con-
cerning the trandating of Dr. Cudworth's Intellectual
Syftem into Latin, by Dr. Jo. Laurent. MS. in 1727.
p. 58. With an Anfvver from the Univerfity. p.
129.

VII. Statutes and Chargys belonging to the Parifh
Clerks of St. James's Kirke of Louth, before the Re-
formation, p. 69.

VIII. An old Form of bidding the Bedes, and Sentence
of Curfing, from a Book of Horn i lies printed by Cax-
ton at Weftmeftre. p. 71. Somewhat different from
that in Wharton's Specimen, p. 166.

IX. A Letter from Dr. Heme to his Brother of Clare
Llall, concerning a Medal of ABp. Laud, in i702q.
p. 79.

X. Particulars concerning the E. of EfTex, Mericke,
and Cuff. p. 81. With Articles againft Bp. Middle-
ton, 1592. p. 89.

XI. Teftamentum Tho. Rotheram Archiep. Ebor. 1500.
p. 93. Coll. de Rotheram fundat. 1482. The Sta-
tutes of this Coll. are in Sidney Coll. Library, with
the Effigies of the ABp.

XII. Particulars concerning Dr. Jof. Beaumont, Matter
of Peter Houfe, with his Funeral Oration in 1699.
p. 109. and Dr. Bernard Hale from his Funeral Ser-
mon 1663. p. 127.

XIII. A Lilt of Degrees conferred on the Nobility, &c.
at King Geo. II. coming to Cambridge on 25 April,
1728, in Number 286. p. 133.

XIV. Notes concerning Godfrey Goodman, Bp. of Glo-
ceiter 1624, in his own Hand Writing, p. 135.

XV. A Copy of Dr. Woodward's Will, clat. 1 Ocf. 1727.
Founder of the Lecture on Foffils. p. 139. Vicars of
Chippeuham. p. 149. See p. 233.

XVI. Sub
". Printed in Defiderata Curiofa, Vol II, Lib. XIV. p. 52.

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XVI. Subfciiptions of Graduates from 1633 to 16^0.
p. 151. N. B. Hiatus xx an. ab 1640'.

XVII. Letters to and from ABp. Laud, concerning his
Power of Viiitarion. p. 193. "With Reafons (hewing
the Univerfity of Cambridge to be exempt from Ar-
chiepifcopal Jurifdidtion, in the Year 1635, 6. and
p. 227, 33 r. Sir William RufTePs Leafe of the Rec-
tory of Burwell. p. 211. Letters to and from the
Dutchefs of Buckingham, concerning her Benefaction
of Oriental MSS. in 1632. p. 213. Of ABp. Harf-
net, Bp. Andrews, and Bp. of London 1629. p. 216.
Congratulations to ABp. Laud, upon his Tranflation
in 1633 to the See of Cant. p. 221. Of the E. of
Holland, Chancellor, the King, &c. concerning Quar-
rels with the Townfmen. p. 222. The Bill in the
Star Chamber againft Baftwick, Burton, and Prynne,
&c. p. 229. The Cafe of Chippenham Vicarage,
with its Rights. Of Burwell St. Mary and Sr. An-
drew u„ p. 233.

XVIII. Particulars from Bedel Perne's Book, viz. The
Receptions of Kings and Princes, Funerals, Graces,
ike. p. 235. With one excluding the Archdeacon of
Ely or his Commilfary from being Vicechancellor, 10
0<5t. 1 712, confirming a former', p. 247.

XIX. A Letter from Dr. Humphreys, Bp. of Bangor,
to Mr. Anth. Wood, containing Remarks on the
Welfh Clergy, fans Dater. p. 229.

XX. An Obituary of the deprived or Non-juring Clergy.

P- *53'

XXI. An Account of a Confuetudinary of the Abbey

of St. Edmund's Bury-, a very curious MS. p. 257.

XXII. A Letter from Lord Clarendon to the Duke of
Yorke, about the Dutchefs of Yorke's turning Papift,

and

'SeeVol.XXV.p.150. ;SeeVol.V.p.i77. « See Vol. XXVI. p. 1.

u Over the Skreefi in this Charch. — Orate pro animabs Johannis
Benet Johanne et Alicie Uxor, ejus Parentumque fuorum, <jui fien
fecerunt hunc pariet ac Carpentariam Navis Ecclie. A". Di :
m cccc !.xin r.

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and from Bp. Sanderfon about his Practice in the Ufe
of the Liturgy 1656. A Copy of a Claufe prefixed
to the original MS. of the Clarendon Hiftory. p.
267.

XXIII. Carta Fundationis Ecclef. Eliens. (ex Origi-
nali) dat. 10 Sept. 33 Hen. VIII. p. 273.

XXIV. A Catalogue of the Fellows, Scholars, &c. of
Trin. Coll. by Dr. Char. Mafon. p. 279.

XXV. De Templariis, Nomina Priorum Hofpit. Sti
Joan. Jerufalem in Anglia. p. 298.

XXVI. A Grant of the Priories of Fordham, Barham,
&c. to Phil. Parris, Efq; 3 Jul. 32 Hen. VIII. with his
Will, dat. 9 Jan. 1557. p. 301.

XXVII. A Speech in Parliament, in the beginning of
Queen Elizabeth's Reign, concerning Religion, and
which to be preferred, p. 317.

XXVIII. Subfcriptiones Quaeftioniftarum et Incepto-
rum ab an. 1690 ad 1725, with Degrees conferred
upon the King's coming to Cambridge, Oct. 6, 1717.
p. 321.

XXIX. Mr. Rob. Dockett's Foundation of two Scho-
larfhips in St. John's Coll. 17 Jan. 12 Hen. VIII. p.

389-

XXX. A Specimen of Bp. Godwyn's firft Eflay, in a

Catalogue of Deans and Bifhops of Bath and Wells,

P- 391-

XXXI. Oriorjnal Letters from K. James to the Prince of

Wales in Spain 1623, and ot K. Charles I. to Prince
Maurice and others in 1643, &c. MS. Harley. p. 397.

XXXII. A Letter from Card, de Fieury to Lord
Oxford, 1739, about the Return of a MS. to the
King's Library, with his Lordlhip's Anlwer, by C. M.
p. 406.

XXXIII. A Lift of the Doctors and Mafters of Arts or
Oxford, from 1565 to 1609. p. 409.

XXXIV. An Epillle dedicatory to the Duke of Bed-
ford, Regent of France, p. 427.

XXXV. Col-

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XXXV. Collections from Dr. Brady's MS. Papers, viz.
Articles of Faith, Vifitations, Injunctions, Letters to
Cromwell concerning the Surrenders of Abbies, &c.
under Hen. VIII. p. 423. wherein his Corruption is
as apparent as that of the vifited. Ejectments by the
E. of Manchefter and the Committee in 1644 & 50.
p. 452. Extracts from the Journals of the Lords
and Commons under James I. Charles I. and II. n

458.

XXXVI. Beverley Ccenobium, with a Lift of the Pro-
vofts there, p. 471.

XXXVII. Mr. Abr. Whelock's Character. See his
Will. prob. 8 Feb. 1667. p 476.

V O L. XXXIV.

I. From Dr. Brady's Collections, viz. The Canonization
of Saints, p. 1. The Condemnation of Hereticks.
p. 9. A Bull of Jubilee, p. 15. Difpenfations. p.
19. Journal of the Ho Life of Commons under F.cUv.
VI. Phil. & Mar. and Queen Elizabeth, p. 21. Oc-
cafional Acts and Obfervations in Parliament in 1640.
p. 29. Grants, Privileges, &c. The King of Encr-
land fuperior Lord of Scotland. The Conviction of
Card. Wolfey. p. 88. A Paper of 'Intelligence from
Newcaftle, 1640 p. 99. From the Scots AfTembly,
1638, &c. p. 1 13.

II. From ABp. Sancroft's Collections, viz. Letter? to
himfelf, fome concerning Cambridge from 1649 t0
1688. p. 117. About building a Theatre there, p.
129. and choofing him Chancellor, &c. p. 136.
About Durham, Divines in Exile, Cofin, Earle,
Creighton, &c. The Conference at Hampton Court,
in the Privy Chamber, 1683. p. 155. The Cafe of
Lord Hatton and the Bp. of Ely concerning the Gar-
dens, &c. p. 158. Dr. Sparrow and Mr. Patrick's
Cafe about the Prefidentihip of Queen's Coll. p. 161.
Dr Board's Cafe. p. 162. ABp. Juxon's Will. p.

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164. Letters of K. James, Mr. Bacon, &c. 1603. P»
166, 7. A Letter from the Council to Edmund, Bp.
of London for a Thankfgiving on Queen Maries being
pregnant", Nov. 24, 1554. p. 169. Of the Univer-
fity .to 'Lord Burleigh concerning allotting Crown
Livings to its Members, 2 Eliz. p. 170. The King's
Reiolution concerning Bohemia and the Palatinate,
1620. p. 175. The Convocation in 1554. p. 178.
The Confecration of Rich. Rogers, p. 181. Refti-
tutio Gul. Alablaftri. p. 186. P. Young Laicus Mr.
Hofpital. Stas Crucis. p. 189. Commendams, p.193,
Gul. Somner Regr. 1660. p. 195. Diipeniations for
the Drs. Donne and Laud, Overal, Edw. Sandys, a
Laick, to hold a Prebend, p. 199. Gul. Forfter
Epus Sodor. p. 205. Sir Walter Raleigh's Letters to
his Wife and Speech, p. 209. Nominatio Jer. Tay-
lor ad locum Socii, &c. p. i$y, 164.

III. The Life of William Lord Burghley, from a MS.
at Burghley Houfe*. p. 113.

IV. Epitaphs in the Churches of Upwell, Outwell,
Swafham Bulbeck, Chefterton, &c. p. 257.

V. A Copy of Hen. VII's Will in 1508, very curious,
containing an Account of his Buildings, Holpicals,
&c. p. 261.

VI. A Catalogue of the Worthies of the Town and
County of Cambridge, by Mr. John Wonhington
above mentioned (Vol. XXVIII. p. 148.) p. 273,

345-

VII. An Act declaring the Attainder of Tho. Duke of

Norfolk void, 1 Mary. p. 281. Of the Appropria-
tion of Churches in Thetford to the Canons there,
1408. p. 287. The Union of Trinity Church with

St.

u Printed by Cawood, and in Harmer's Specimen of Errors.

x This is printed in Peck's Defid. Curiofa, Vol. I. p. I. and is
fuppofed to be drawn up by Mr. Hicks, his Secretary, afterwards
Sii William Hicks, living in 1607. Sec Strype's Ann. Vol. IV. p.
303. where a remarkable Letter to him may be feen.

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St. Cuthbert's, 2 Edw. VI. and of St. Nicolas and St.
Peter's at the fame Time. p. 289. Deeds of Sir
Rich. Fulmerflon, Monks, Canons and Nuns there,
p. 291. Doomfday Book of Thetford y. p. 296. Of
Norwich, p. 298, &c. A Specimen of a Book of the
Fare and Expences of the D. of Norfolk % from Ocf .
1. 18 Hen. VIII. to Sept. 28, following, p. 302.

VIII. An Account of the Convocation an. 1603, 4, 5, 6,
&c.a

IX. Addrefles of the Dutch and French Churches to
the Bp. of London, 1604. p. 311. Tho. Bell's Let-
ters from JefusColI. concerning his Converfion, 1593,
iince printed.

X. Letters from ABp. Sandys to Lord Burghley in his
own Defence, 1586. p. 314. With two from Pere-
grine and Rob. Bertie, about the Title of Lord Wil-
loughby, 1575, 80.

XI. Collections from Lib^r Rerum memorabilium of
Mat. Stokys Bedel, with Tabor's Additions, p. 319..
Letters to and from the Univerfity in the Time of Q.
Mary\

XII. Original Letters from the ABps. Grindal, Whit-
gift, Q^Eliz. Matthews to ABp. Hutton (penes Fa-
miliam Hutton in Agio Ebor.) p. 377. continued at
p. 43 r. The Commiffion of Enquiry for ABp. Ab-
bot in 1621. p. 389.

XIII. Colled:, e Charto-phylacio regio, modo MS. P.
Williams S.T. P. p. 393. Letters from Charles I.
and others during the Rebellion, &x.

XIV. Collect, concerning PeterJHoule from a MS. of
the Statutes, Orders, &c. p. 435.

XV. The

)' Printed in Martin's Hilt, p. 25. and of Norvv. in BlomHelJ's,
p. n.

z It is a thick Folio, now in the Library of Pemb. Hall.

1 Sir.ce printed by Strype in his Annals, Vol. IV. p. 396, 7.

Thole to Q^EIiz, are in Vol. X. p. 247,

E

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XV. The D. of Buckingham's Will (a very large one)
dat. ^o Dec. 17 17 b. p. 441.

XVI. Dr. Beveridge's, 1708, with Extracts from Sir
Rich. Ray ne's Will, fans date. p. 446.

XVII. A Grant of Dame Jane Inglethorpe to the Mo-
naftery of Ely, or to Queen's Coll. 13 Aug. 1493. p.451*

XVIII. Dr. Parne's Account of the Foundation of Mi-
chael Houfe, 17 Edw.II. and of King's Hall, 11 Edw,
III. czc. p. 453.

XJX. TheExpulfion and Degradation of Phil. Nichol?,
LL.D. for itealing Books, &c. Aug. 2, 1731. p. 452.

XX. K. William's intended Speech to both Houfes of
Parliament, p. 459.

XXI. Letters from Dr. Jo. Wallis to Mr. Mat. Pool
concerning the Examination of Scholars at Oxford,
165* c. p. 460.

XXII. Bp. Atterbury's Letter to Mr. Pope of 23 Nov,
1 73 1, wherein he fpeaks of his Defence of Lord Cla-
rendon's Hiftory, p. 466.

VOL. XXXV.

I. Particulars concerning Prefident Bradfhaw on the
Cover.

II. Collect:, from MSS. in the Paper Office •, viz. Ori-
ginal Letters from Charles I. to the Prince, the Elec-
tor Palacine, Prince Rupert, Chriftina Queen of Swe-
den, and other Princes from 1642 to 1651. p. 1.

II !. Letters from the Earls of Eiiex, Warwick, M.;n-
chefter, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Jo. Hotham, Walter
Montague, Secretary Nicholas, Win. Lenthall, &c.
from 1040 to 1660. p. 41. Treaty or. Uxbridge d

and
b See Bayle's Eng. Dicl. Art. Sheffield John.

c Printed :n Gray's Examination of Neat's Iliil. Vol. IV. App.
1:3. from Dr, Nallon's Coiled.

d Printed by Sir Win Dugdnle, with a Particular concerning Mr.
Love, p. 8<t.

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and of Newport, p. $6. Two Receipts of 21 Jan.
and 3 Feb. 1646, from the Scots, for 200,000 1. paid
by the Englifh on the Delivery of the King, &c. e p.
91, 2.
IV. General Fairfax's CommiGion, Cromwell's Oath?,
&c. p. 94, 5. Speaker Lenthall's Petition to quit
his Employment 1641. p. ico. Mr. Rob. Yeaman's
Cafe, mot in 1643, f°r attempting to deliver up
Briltol. p. 101. Prince Rupert's Difmifllon for fur-
rendering it too foon 1645. P- io4- An Invitation
of the Parliament to the Prince, p. ic8. Of the
King's Remove from Holdenby. p. 109. Of the D.
of York, &c. p. 112. 135. Mr. Tutty's Cafe about
Inftitution, 1642. p. 113. (See Vol. XXVII. p. 422.)
Sir F.dw. Deering's Cafe, 164.1. v. 1 16. The King's
Complaint againit Sir Jo. Hotham. p. 117. Of the
{even Priefts condemned and banifhed. p. 119. Bp.
of Worcefter, ib. Gen. Fairfax thanked, &c. 1644,
with the Ordinance about Spores, p. 121. Provifion
for the King's Children, 1645. P- l22-> 17- Lord
Saville's Cafe, 1645. p. 122. Mr. Brydle's Cafe,
condemned at Oxford the fame Year. p. 127. The
Examination of Mich. Hud lbn CI. and others about
the King's Eicape from Oxford in 164.6. p. 130. Dr.
Baker's Ejectment from South Weald, 1646. Mr.
Rolfe's and Jo. Lilburne's Cafes, p. 136, ;;. 3000 1.
given in 1648. The Manner of the Reception of the
Houie o: Commons in 1649, w''cn f''c Speaker was
impowered to conter the Honour or Knighthood on
the Lord Mayor and others, p. 139. Of the Removal
or the Princels Eliz. ami the 13. of Glocefter, 10-50.
p. 140. The Murder of Doriflaus. p. 141. An Ac-
count ot' the King's March out or Scotland, and De-
feat at Worcefter, Sept. 17, 1651. p. 142. Carew.
Raleigh's Cafe, 1651. p. 144. Concerning the Picture

of

roth printed in Peck's DefiJ, Cuiiofa, Vol. IT. Lib. IX, p. 34,5.

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of the Protector with Verfes, 169O. p. 145. The
Tryal of Sir Jo. Stowell. p. 146. Audlem School,
1 65 i,&c. Letters relating to Spain, France, &c.
from Ant. Aicham murdered there, Adm. Blake, &c.
1 65 1. p. 149. The Portugal AmbafTador's Brother
committed for Murder, 1653. Concerning the Queen
of Bohemia's Maintenance from the States, with an
Anfwer, 1651. The Reduction of Newcastle and
Carlifle in 1646, and of the Caftle of Edinburgh to
Cromwell, 1650. p. 166, 74, 5. A Motion for the
Union of England and Scotland in the fame Common
Wealth, 1632. p. 168. Affairs of Ireland, &c. 1644,
46, 52. p. 169. The Acts, Advice, and Petition to
Parliament of the Afiembly of Divines, figned with
their Names, &c. Their Petition voted a Breach of
Privilege and their Power limited, 1645, 6. p. 173 to
84. Petitions of the Countefs of Leicefter, about a
.jewel given by the Princefs Elizabeth. «- — - of the

E. of Carlifle for his Releafe, 1651 p. 188. of

Mr. Jo. Hotham, 1643, ^or a Trial. of Wm.

Ryley, Keeper of the Records, for a Salary, 1648. p.

189. . of Jam. Naylor at Bridewell. ■ ■ of the

Bifhops to fit in Parliament. of the Grand Jury

for a College at Durham, 1650, &c. p. 191.

V. The Wills of Bp. Ayfcough, dat. 26 Nov. 1446, and
of Rob. Ayfcough, Archdeacon of Colchefter, 1448,
and of others, extracted from the Regiiter Rcve's
Cant. p. 194.

v i. The Commemoration of Benefactors in Peter Houie,
by Dr. Cofin, Mailer, 1634, with an Appendix to
1694. p. 205.

\ H. Some Account of the Rev. Mr. Tho. Marfden,
Dr. Rich. VVroe, Mr. Ellis Cunliffe, Mr. Crompton,
the Family at Kaml'ey, with her Ladyfhip's Bcncfac-
rion, eve. p. 213, ^5.

VIII. Collectanea e Vet. Regiftro five Cartulario Prio-
ratus de I .ancafter. n. 217.

IX CoK

F 69 3

IX. Collect, e Libro MS. cui Titulus, Perfecutionis
Catholicorum Anglican. & Conjurationis Prefbyteri-
anse Hiftoria, (Auctore P. Warnero/'. p. 231. Noia;
de Comite Clarendon, Shaftfbury, Danby, Jo. Ser-
geant, Geo. Morley, ec de Eboracenfi Duce, ec Mon-
mouth plurima.

X. Jo. Epi Roffenfis Aflertio, licitum fuifie Matrimo-
nium Hen. VIII. cum Catharina, &c. p. 253.

XI. The general Sentence of Excommunication with
the Bedcs on Sunday s. p. 297.

XII. A Briefe of the Certificates from the Diocefes of
Canterbury, London, York, &c. 1592. p. 305.

XIII. Letters fro n Dr. Hicks (Chaplain to the Duke of
Lauderdale) out of Scotland to Dr. Patrick, &c. con-
cerning the Execution of James Mitchel, 1677, 8. h
p. 311.

XIV. Bp. Alcock's Sermon (with his Picture in Co-
lours in Pontificalibus) printed in 410, 1497. (fpeci-
men tantum). p. 321.

XV. Concerning Houghton Conquelt, from a MS. of
Mr. Tho. Archer, Rector there in 1589, and who
died in 1629, with an Obituary of his Neighbours.
In the Hands of Dr. Grey, late Rector there, p. 329.

XVI. Tranlcripts from an old Chartulary of the Priory
of Depyn/, founded in 1139, with an Account of the
Rectory and Vicarage. From a MS. of Lord Oxford
now in theBritifh Mufeum. p. 339.

XVII. Epiltola? Gul. Cant. Arch, ad Ludovicum Ellis
du Pin, 13 Feb. i6yl. Letters concerning the In-
troduction

f See Parfon's Memorial of the Reformation of England, printed
by Dr. Gee, and which he fays was written by Father Warner, the
King's Confeflbr.

? Published in a ^to Vol. intituled, Quatuor Sermones finit. Weft-
minlter, anno i4g6. fol. 47. ad finem. with the following Title,
M^dus fulminandi Sententiam. See App. The Sunday's Bedes
follow in Englifli.

h See Burners Hilt. Vol. I. p. 413, &c.

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troduclion of the Liturgy of the Church of England
into the Kingdom of PruiTia in 1706L p. 357. with
ethers about the King's Death, &x. in 171 3. The
Pope's Oration upon the Death of James II. with a
Lecter to the King of Frame 1689, ane* another from
Lord Middleton.

XVIII. Particulars concerning Pemb. Hall, St. Botolph
and St. Thomas's Hoftles. p. 371.' and Clare Hall. p.

r/7-

XIX. Large Materials for the Life of Mr. Nich. Fer-
rar. p. 389.

XX. A Lift of the Grefham PrcfefTors, with Notes up-
on them k. p. 433.

XXL A Caie by Dr. Gooch, Matter, concerning the
Election oi Fell, in Cuius College, p. 437.

XXII. The Bp. of Ely's Sentence of Deprivation againft
Dr. Bentley, Matter of Trin. Coll. dat. 27 Apr. 1734,
but never executed by the Vicemafter. p. 447.

XXIII. Charters, Leafes and other Inftruments con-
cerning the Spittil Houie in the Town of Cambridge,
with the Names of many Mayors, &c. p. 453. This
Houfe lying at the South End of the Town, was leafed
to Rob. Brunn and Margaret his Wire, and the lonrr-
eft Liver of them, 17 Hen. VIII. by the Corporation,
for the Reception of Lepers both Men and Women,
in which was a Chapel, &c. p. 454,9.

XXIV. Dr. Atterbuiy's Speech on prefenting Lord
Harley to a Degree, p. 465. Speaker Harley's on

giving

; In which fome blame is thrown upon ABp.Tenifon, who faid he
did not c;re for writing, left he fhould offend the Proteflants abroad.
See thi LiiV of Grabe in the Supplement to Biograph. Britan. Note
L. p. /'?■ riil'r. of C C. C C. p. 397. Relation des Mefures qui
furent prifes pour introduirela Liturgie Anglican, .fee. in 1767. 4.to.
p. 0, 20, 28. Birch1? Remarks on the Life or Tillotfon. p. 47. Spe-
:u!em SarHburiamum. p. 11.

k Their Lives were fin re published by Mr. Ward, to whom Mr.
Baker communicated his Notfs, in 1740. See Pref. p. 1.

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giving Thanks to Sir Geo. Rooke, wich his Reply.
Inscription for a Monument at Blenheim.

XXV. Conjectures concerning the Author of The
Whole Duty of Man. p. 469.

XXVI. An Account of a Gold Ring found at Sher-
bourne in Yorkfli. 1729, fuppofed to have belonged
to a Danifh King. p. 471.

XXVII. De Joan. Rous Amiquario Warwic. et de Anr.
Wood,

V O L. XXXVI.

I. Particulars concerning the Scite, building and finifh-
ing of King's Coll. ' p. 1 .

II. Memoirs of the Lite E. of Manchefter, Son of the
Lord Privy Seal. p. 17. Of the Lord Strafford, &c.
e Chartophylacio Regio.

III. The Life and Death of Wentworth E. of Rofcom-
mon, by Dr. Chetwood. See p. 27, 53, 56,&c.

IV. Particulars concerning Win, Aylorfe's Benefactions
to Trin. Llall, 1690, with Dr. Chet wood's Will, &c.

'733- P-45-

V. The Preamble to the Patent for creating Gen. Monk

D. of Albemarle"1, p. 57.

VI. An Account of Richard Plantagenet, the laft of the
Name, Baftard of Rich. III." p. 59.

VII. The laft Wills of Dr. Mofs, prob. 24 Apr, 1729.

p. 63.

1 Moil of thefe Inilruments are printed in the Account of the
Chapel in 1769, &c. and in Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in
England, Vol. I. App.

m Printed in Dcfid. Curiofa, Vol. II. Lib. XIV. p. 1. from Secre-
tary Oudart's Papers.

n Printed in Defid. Curiofa, Lib. VIII. p. 13. The late Dr. Sal-
ter, Mailer of the Charter Houfe, allured Mr. Mafters this was a
Forgery, but Mr. Brett, fon of the Dr. thinks it a well grounded
Tradition, afhrms there is fuch an Entry in the Regiller of Eailwell,
and that the Story is currently believed in that Country. See HilL
C C. C. C. App. p. 89.

E4

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p. 63. of Matr. Stokys, 1590 °. *■ of Mr.

John Ligluwin, 1723. of Mr. Godfrey Wafh-

ingron, 1729. of Rich. Newcome, 1 73 1 . ■ — — *

of Dr. Wm. Baker, 1733. p. 85. of Mr. At-

wood, Bedel, 1734. p. 87.

VIII. Series Fundationis Coll. Regin. Cant, ex antiquis
Coll. Monument, extract. 161 6. p. 75.

IX. An Account of Cevalerius, Hebrew Reader, and
his I flue, from Notes in a Book of his in the Royal
Library, Camb.P Epitaph. Johan. Dixie, A. M.

X. Proclamotions of Edw. VI. from a printed Book in
the Univerfity Library, p. 93.

XI. Particulars concerning Members of Pemb. Hall,
communicated by Dr. Tanner to Mr. Atwood in MS.
p. 97. Gabriel Harvey his Ciceronianus Rhetor. &c.
cum Epift. Hatcheri, Levini, &c. p. 107. Epitaph.
Nic. Bacon.

XII. Fontis Sanctse beatas Winifrcdae defcriptio, a Joan.
Falconero. p. 115.

XIII. Particulars of Debts due from the Emperor to
Edw. VI. &c. from original Letters of the King, &c.

p. IIQ.

XI VT. from a Terrar of the Lands within the

Bounds of Cambridge, with an Account of Parker's
Piece, and the old Names of Ways, Lanes, &c. from
50 Hen. III. p. 129.

XV. Collections from Dr. Theoph. Dillingham's Pa-
pers, Mailer of Clare Hall, viz. Magd. Coll. Cafe
about an Eftate in the Time of Jam. I. p. 133. The
Hiftory Reader founded by Fulk Lord Brooke, 1628,
with the Rules, Orders, &c. p. 136. The Vintnors-
Cafe, 1580. p. 155 ABp. Bancroft's Books ordered

to

Q He was Regifter of the Univerfity, and left a Book behind him
for the inftructior, of his SuccelTors in that Office, the Contents of
v\hich are infertcd in Append.

t Sw Flirt. C. C C. C. p. 233.

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to be fcnt toCamb. 1646. and no Soldiers to be quar-
tered there, O. C. 1652.

XVI. Particulars from the Regifters of Dullingham
and Over. p. 161. The Statutes of St. James's Gild
at the former, very curious -, the folemn League and
Covenant in the latter.

XVII. The Statutes of the Gilds of St. Peter and St.
Paul, 1448, and of All Saints in Camb. 1473. p. 171-
(See Vol. XXXVIII. p. 142, 3.

XVIII. Comment. Rich. Drake Aul. Pemb, Socii et
Caneellarii Sarum, de fe et fuis, ab an. 1609 ad 1657.
p. 177. Difcipuli Gr^ci. p. 203.

XIX. The charitable Benefactions of Tobias Ruftat
Elq-, to the Univerfity &c. in 1665, &c. p. 207. (See
Vol. XXXVIII. p. 215.J

XX. Compofitions about Sturbridge and Midfummer
Fairs, 9 Hen. VIII. p. 209. Orders, Letters, &c. of
the Town of Cambridge concerning Difputes with
the Univerfity, &c.

XXI. Extracts of the mod confiderable Things in a
MS. indorfed Cotton, being a Sort of lhort Parochial
Hiftory of the County of Huntingdon by Sir Robert
Cotton, with many Additions fince made, down to the
preient Century. In the Hands of the late James
Weft Eio* p. 227.

XXII. The Will of Dr. Lambert, late Mafter of Sr.
John's Coll. 5 Jul. 1734. p. 263.

XXIII. De Cantariis fundatis in Ecclefia Santfli Pauli
Lond. cum Obituario 1450. p. 267.

XXIV. The Life of Mr. Tho. Hearne of Oxford, in
his own Hand, MS.q p. 279.

XXV. The laft Will of Anth. Wood', prob. 3 Jan.
1695, wherein he bequeaths his Books and MSS. to
the Ammolean Mufeum. p. 299.

XXVI. Mary

4 See Engliih Bayle, Art. Hearne.

' Probably printed in his Life.

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XXVI. Mary Queen of Scot's Will and other Particu-
lars, p. 301.

XXVII. The Charter and Foundation of Trinity Coll.
in Dublin, 3 Mar. 1591, by Queen Elizabeth, with.
AB<>. Loftus's Speech to the Corporation of Dublin.
p.3ir.

XXVIII. Collections from Wm. Bedford's MSS. viz.
An Account of ABp. Ufher, by Dr. Bernard, p. 323.
Bp. Burnet on Divorce. Dr. Baft wick to ABp.Uiher.
Bp. Cofin's Manual of Devotions. Dr. Bancroft's
Recommendation to the See of London by the ABp.
of Cant. ABp. Laud's firft Letter to Mr. Sclden.
Chriftoph. Goodman's Declaration of Obedience to
Queen Mary. Edw. Deering's Articles. Opinions
or our Divines concerning proceeding with Papifts.
p. 338. Letters from King's College to Lien. VIII.
about augmenting their Revenues. Ifabella de Ara-
G;onia ad Resin. Dotariam Francias et Soror. Hen. VIII,
condoling with her for the lofs of her Hufband, and
imploring AiTiftance for llerfelf and Family, 15 15."
The E. of Richmond to Card. Wolfey, Thed. Beza,
&c. An Edict of the Bp. of Worcefter, againft ob-
ierving Hok day, 1450 s. Tho. Reade Epift. ad
Fran. Windchanke, 23 Nov. 1640. Of Hugh
Broughton. Of Edw. Pocock to J. Selden, Eiq;
1652. Of Edm. Cartel to Mr. Sam. Clarke, 1667,
2, 59. Mr. Fulman's Account of Dr. Hammond,
&c. Sir Andr. Fountain to Mr. Whaites, concern-
ing the Extent of Rome, 1702. Bp. Nicholfon, Bp.
Gibfon: D. of Norfolk and Tho. Cromwell to Hen.
VIII. Sir Wm. Cecil and Dr. Perne to ABp. Far-
ker. Sir Tho. Cook's Donation to Oxford. Mr,
Dodf.vorth's MSS. &c.

XXIX. Mr. Hen. Shervilc's or Sherfield's Cenfure,

l633-

.luvm ?vl uteres Homines, alio die Homines Mulieres ligaie, ac
.:„• •.-.: ii:j:iia. utinam i;o:i iuiuueita vcl cieteriora f'accre moliantur et

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1635. See Antiq. of Salisbury, p. 142. and Cafe
printed 1717. Particulars concerning Mr. Noy's
Will, prob. 1634, Dorcheiter, &c. p. 377.

XXX. A Journal of the Proceedings of the Afiembly
of Divines, by Mr. Lightfoor, 1643. p. 381.

XXXI. A Lilt of the Bailiffs of Shrewibury, from 1572
to 1603, with lb me hiftorical PaiTages concerning the
Town, by Mr. Taylor, Fellow of Si. John's College,
p. 405.

"XXXII. Bp. Overall's Epiiaph, and occafional Speeches
in Latin, p. 417.

XXXIII. Queen Elizabeth's Entertainment at Oxford
in 1592. p. 441.

XXXI V. An Extraft of K. James's at Oxford in 1605.
p. 449.

XXXV. Particulars concerning the Family of — Crag^s,
Secretary of State, p. 462. and on the Cover, p. 453

XXXVI. Dr. Mat. Pearlon's Will, 1734. p. 457.

XXXVII. Remarkables concerning K. Charles!. Col.
Hammond, Afhburnham and Berkely, printed in

1647- P-459-

XXXVIII. Gul. Grocini Epift. fed pra^terea nihil fcrip-
tum reliquit, impreff. Aldo Manutio Romano, p. 465.

XXXIX. Epitaphs in Fulborne Church in Camb.1 p.
467. and in Buckworth Com. Hunts, p. 470.

XL. Of Haltwiftle Rectory, and Bekingham Chapel in

Northumberland, p. 471.
XLI. Sir Roger le Strange's Letter to Sir Chriftoph.

Calthorp, concerning his Daughter's turning Papiit,

1702. p. 472. Characters of Sir Roger, who died

j 704, and \ji Admiral Bembo in 1702.

V O L. XXXVII.

I. Collectanea e veteri Chartulario Ecclefi'ae Cath. Lich-
field, from 1432 to 1453- Admiffions of Prebend.
Wills, &c. p. 1.

II. Dif-

1 Printed in Blomfield's Colleft. p. 36, &c.

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II. Difpenfatio Card. Wolfey, Mro. Joh. Want. 1526.
p. 17.

III. The Reformation of the Univerfity of Cambridge,
by the E. of Manchefter, from the Books of the
Committee, 1643". p. 19.

IV. Life of the Lord Keeper North, &c. with Particu-
lars of the North Family of Kirtling*, &c. p. 182.

V. The State of the Rectory and Vicarage of Kirtling.
p. 182.

VI. The Life of Dr. John North, Matter of Trinity
College7, &c. p. 236. The great Preelection of
Fellows there, p. 292. Of building the Library there,
p. 294. Of Dr. Bentley. p. 514.

VII. Memoirs or Notes concerning the Life of Roger
North, Efq-, by himfelf z, with the Characters of many
Lawyers and other Perfons, and many remarkable
Tranfadions of that Time. p. 318.

VIII. An Examen of a pretended complete Hiftory by
R. N. above8, p. 392. with Sir Dudl. North's Cafe
after the Revolution b.

IX. Oratio

u Printed in Dr. Grey's Anftver to Neal's Hiflory of the Puritans,
Vol. 11. p. 143, &c.
* Printed in 4to. 1742. See Vol. II. p. 539.

y This is printed with that of Sir Dudley North in 4to. 1744,
published by Montagu North, Fellow of Jel'us Coll. as well as the
former.

z Many of thefe Notes are inferted in the above Lives, which were
all wrote by him, fo probably not printed feparately.

a Mr. Baker obferves this Examen contains feveral remarkable
Particulars, but many of them the fame as the Lives, and mod of
the Miitakes or Omifiions cenfured, are fuch as may be objected to
any Hiftorian, and all of them delivered with too much warmth.
For which Reafon, fays he, 1 did not tranfcribe thefe Vols, and the
rather becaufe they are directed againft my honoured Friend Bifhop
Kennet?s (complete Hiftory, Vol. III.) See p. 392. of this Vol.
This was printed in 4m. 1740. He wrote Notes of the like Nature
upon Eachard's Hillory, which are at the End of the fame MS.

b See Lift-, p. 190. and Examen, p. 622.

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IX. Oratio fecunda Tho. Smith, LL. D. de dignitate
Legum, &c. p. 394. Ejufdem altera Oratio de ra-
tione Juris Civilis. p. 414. Ad Literas Ant. Corra-
ni Refponfum, 1575. p. 431. Inftructions for Sir
Tho. Smith, Knt. when fent into France about the
Repetition of Calais, 1566. p. 433.

X. Nicholai Carri c Grascse Linguse Profeflbris Regii
Oratio de Scriptorum Britan. paucitate, fpecimen
tantum, habetur enim jam impreffa quam MSta in
Biblioth. Regia Cant. p. 439.

XI. Extracts ftom the Regifter of the Parifh of Wilbur-
ton, of Births, Marriages and Burials, p. 445.

XII. Epitaphs of the Cotton Family in the Church of
Conington Co. Hunt. p. 447.

XIII. The Will of Alderman Mayfield, dat. an. 1685,
in which he bequeaths Medals to the Univerfity. p.

453-

XIV. The Number of Livings in the feveral Colleges,
by Dr. Warren of Trin. Hall, in 1739, with fome Re-
marks by Drs. Afhton and Long, when a Bill was
brought into the Houie for retraining Alienations of
Lands in Mortmain &c. and the Petition of the Uni-
verfity thereupon, p. 454.

XV. The Will of Mr. Tho. Hearne of Oxford, dat.
14 Feb. 1729, in which he bequeaths his MSS. and
Books to Mr. William Bedford, Son of his Friend
Mr. Hilkiah Bedford, ob. 10 Jun. 1 735 d. p. 460,

VOL. XXXVIII.

I. Teftamentum Gul. Wickham Epi Winton, cum No-
tis prasfixis, ob. 1 595 e. p. x.

II. Oratio

c M. D. firft Fell, of Pemb. Hall, then of Trin. Coll. He died
in 1596, and was buried in St. Gyles's Church in Camb.

d This is printed by Curl with his Life in 1736.

e This is printed in the Append, to hi$ Lift by Dr, Lowth, N.
XVII. p. 384.

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II. Oratio D. Tobias Matthaei, cum D. Dayum publ.
Convocat. Prolocutorem prefentem fifterit 8 Cal. Feb.
1580. p. 13.

III. D. Tob. Matthaei Decani Ecclie Chrifti Oxon.
Precationes, &c. p. 19.

IV. Supplicatio Reginos, Cancellario et Domino Burgh-
ley pro D. Jameho Prebend, et Student, ut Decanus
efiet iEdis Chrifti 1575. p. 22.

V. A Note of a Confutation had at Greenwich, 1 May
1 5 6 1 , about receiving a Nuntio from the Pope. p.
27.

VI. Bp. Pilkington's Letter to the E. of Leicefter about
the Surplice, Cap, &c. 24 Oft. 1564. p. 33.

VII. Realons for the Reftitution of Calais f, 3 Apr. 1567,
with a Letter to the Queen from Sir Tho. Smith on
the fame. p. 37.

VIII. A Letter from D. Mathues to the E. of Leicester
concerning his Sermon at St. Paul's Crofs in 1576.
p. 74.

IX. Bp. White's Sermon at the Funeral of Q^ Mary s.

P-77-

X. Part of a Letter from Gre^. Martin to Dr. White,

Warden of New College, Oxford, an. 1575. p. 89.

XI. Epilogus Caefaris interfecli, a Mro. Ricardo Ledes,
A. D. 1582, &c. p. 91.

XII. Armachanus (Jac.Uflcrius) Redivivus h. &c. p. 93.

XIII. Ex-

f See Strype's Eccles Memor. Vol. I IT. Chap. LXIV. and the

Report of the Committee appointed to view the Cotton Library.
Caligula. N. I. 11, &c.

g Print::] in Strype's Memor. Vol. III. Append. LXXXI.p.277.

h This i:, a juvenile Performance, hut every Thing concerning
fo great a. id pood a Man, is worth preferring. It is remarkable for
the Time it was fpoken at Chriil Church. l6;j, the fecend Year af-
ter his Death; and for being the Memorial of a Eifhop after F.pifco-
pr.cy was abolilhed. It was inferibed to the E. of Radnor, and
printed in i6i8; and in MS. to Dr. J.hn Moore r: 1684. It i:
vcrv fcarce.

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XIII. Excerpta e veteri Regiftro Prioratus Elycns. ab
an. 1277 ad 1553. Continent. Chartas fere omnes
in temp. Edw. III. p. 107. John de Watford Reft.
de Orrord, appointed their Phyfician, and obliged to
refide in the Monaitery, 1278. p. 1 to. Inquifitio 31
Edv. I. pro uno MeiTuagio et novem Cottag. in
Holeburne, dat. a Johan. de Kyrkbye Epo. Eliens.
Valent clare 72s. nd. p. in. Vi'fitatio Archiep.
Cant. 1314. p. 115. Eleftio Johan. de Ketene Epi.
6 Cal. Mar. 1309. p. 129. Johan. de Hotham Epi.
13 16. p. 124. Articuli propofiti per Clerum ad nul-
land. Citationem iam. fact, per Walt. Reynold Ar-
chiep. Cant. p. 131. Confirm. Coll. Sti Mich. Cant,
et Appropriatio Ecclie Mich. 1324. p. 155. Irro-
tulatio Tenementi Epi. Eliens. in Holebourne. p. 138.
Fundatio Cantarias Willi de Lolleworth in Ecclia Sti
Clement. 1327. p. 142. Confirmatio Appropriat.
Ecclie de Hinton. 1335. p. 147. Appropriat. de
Litlyngton, 1336. p. 156. Perambulatio faft. in
Com. Cant, et Hunt. 13 Edv. III. p. 158. et Foreft.
de Hunt. p. 160. Ordinatio Vicar, de Gamelingay,
1392. p. 164. Libertates Epi. Eliens. temp. Edv. I.
p. 167. Breve regium Cufcod. Epifc. Eliens. temp.
vacationis 10 Edv. I. p. 169. Compofitio inter Epum
et Galf. de Coleville, 1317. p. 171. Sententia defi-
nit. de Decimis Ecclie Omnium Stor. et Sti Vigor, de
Fulborne, 1330. p. 173. Confirmatio Au!. Annun-

ciationis Cant. 1353. p. 175. ■ et Coll. Trin. de

Norvvic. 135?. p. 176, 9. >et Coll. Corp. Chrifli,

1352. ib. Relaxario Abbatifise de Denev, 30 Edv.
III. p. 177. De Conftabulario Caftri de Wyfbcche.
ib. Appropriat. Ecclie de Caxton, 1351. p. 179.
■ ■ et de Whaddon Coll. de Windfor.

XIV. K. James's lecond Orders for placing and dil-
placing Aldermen, &c. at Cambridge in 1088. p.

X\ . 1 he Lives or George D. oi Buckingham, and or

Thomas

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Thomas Lord Fairfax, by Dr. Brian Fairfax, p. 187.
Of Dr. Mapletoft, Dean of Ely. p. 191. and of Sir
John King. p. 193 and 261. who both died in 1677 '.

XVI. De rebus Cantab, (e veteri Regiftro) viz. Catal.
Librorum per varios Bcnefa&ores dat. et Inftrumen-
tor. p. 197. Capeilanus Acad, fundat. a Nigello de
Thorndon Medico, p. 199.

XVII. The charitable Will of Wm. Sherwood of Walk-
ington in Yorkshire, 1537. P- 21 1. A Memoir con-
cerning the Burial of Rich. III. and Hen. VII. when
ftiled Defender of the Faith.

XVIII. A Memoir concerning Tob. Ruftat.k p. 215.

XIX. Hiftoriola de Fundatione Capellse de Fenny Strat-
ford per Browne Willis LL.D- 1725. p. 217.

XX. Epiftola Acad. Cant, tranfmifta Duci de Novo-
Caftio Senefchallo defignato, 1737. p. 221.

XXI. The Will of Dr. Henry James, Mafter of Queen's
Coll. Reg. Profef. Theol. ob. 15 Mar. 171*. p. 223.

XXII. An Inftrument of Chrift. Coll. concerning an
Exchange of Lands in Cottenham, 22 Eliz. p. 229.

XXIII. Inftitutiones et Ordines ceiebrati per Epum
Lincoln, 1663,4, &c. p. 233.

XXIV. Ordines ceiebrati et lnltitutiones concefiae Epo.
Eliens. 1538,9, &c. p. 235.

XXV. Quaedam de Felice Epo. Edmundo Rege et
Winifreda Virgine. p. 242.

XXVI. The Univerfity's Addrefs to the Prince of
Wales upon the Birth of a Daughter in 1736. p.
251.

XXVII. Of the Foundation of Clare Hall, with the
Names of the Benefactors, Matters, Fellows, 6cc. to
1617. p.253.

XXVIII. Extracts from the Funeral Oration upon Dr.
Eden, Mafter of Trim Hall, 1645, Pcr Andr. Owen

Soc.

1 See Eachard's Hid. p. 956,
" See Vol. XXXVI. No. XIX.

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Soc. with fome Account of his Birth, Death, Will,
&c.» p. 255.

XXIX. Particulars of Oliv. Cromwell's Birth, Family,
&c. from the Huntingdon and Wicken Regifters. p.
259. & 462.

XXX. Sir John King's Family, Additional, p. 261.

XXXI. The Aniwer of M. Ant. de Dominis, to Bp.
Hall's Letter in 1621, p. 263. With many Particu-
lars in his Defence, p. 285.

XXXII. Articles of Agreement between Trin. Coll.
and D. Humph. Babington, a Benefactor in a New
Building, 168 r. p. 305.

XXXIII. Collea. e Rcgiftro Ecclie, Cath. Lincoln.
161 1, et 1618. p. 309. Eleemofyn. Domus, W.
Browne, Stamford. Litene Adminiftrationis Bono-
rum Ric. Clayton, (Mri Coll. Johan. Cant. Archd.
Lincoln, Conceffe Janas Afhton Sorori, 1712. p.
312. A Letter about the Ayde for the Marriage of
the Princefs Eliz. 161 2. Commiflio pro Exercit. Ju-
risdict. fede vacante. p, 314. Letters for a Loan
from the Clergy, in Support of the K. of Bohemia,
p. 317. A Licence for painting Churches granted to
Wm. Langley, of Buckminfter. p. 319. And to a
Midwife, p. 320. Letters of Enquiry concerning
Patronages of Livings belonging to the Crown, p.
321. Vifitatio Metropolitica, 1633. p. 324. when
the Clergy were admonifhed to wear Canonical or
Priefts Clokes, &c. Letters for a Loan to the Kino-
at Nottingham, 1642. p. 327. A Certificate to the
Exchequer, of the AdmifTion of Dr. Throckmorton
to the Archdeaconry of Lincoln, 1663. p. 329. A
Certificate of the Chancellor and Univerfity of Ox-
ford, having conferred the Degree of M.D. ad eun-
dem upon Dr. Peter Richer, p. 330. A Mandate for
the Free School of Grantham, 1684. p. 331. A Me-

tropolitical

1 See Fuller's Worthies of Eflex, although he is here faid to have

been of Suffolk.

F

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tropolitical Vifitation. 16S6. The BiQiop's Determi-
nation about the Free School of Laughton, 1693. p.
3 <7< Leafes of Prebends to be entered in the Church
Ke.iler. p. 338. A Gertiricate about Churches at
' Bedford.

XXXIV. Rob. Jenkin, pro Domina Margareta Profef-
1 1 ; :, Oratio inauguralis, 171 1. p. 339.

XXXV. Lady Mary's Submiflion. p. 349. Letters
from Pace at Rome, to the King, 1525. p. 345. To
the fame from Tunftal, Wyngfield and Sampfon, with
the Emperor, 1525, concerning the Captivity of the
French King. p. 346. The fame from Toledo, with

a long P. S. p. 349. ■ giving an Account of

the Death of Wyngfield, with a Treaty of Redemp-
tion, p. 354. Jul. 28. to the Cardinal on the fame Sub-
ject, loAug. and to the King, the nth. p. 357. To
the fame 2d or" Dec. p. 359. A Loan to the French
King, dat. 29 Jan. 1529. p. 361. Inftruftions to
the AmbafTadors with the French King by the Cardi-
nal, 4 May., 1526, concerning the Impracticability of
his fulfilling the Conditions with the Emperor, p. 364.
1 nil ructions to the Ambafladors with the Emperor,
1525. p. 370. • concerning the K. of Denmark,

1523. p. 374. with the King's Letter to the
Emperor, p. 378. A Letter of Thanks for his A!-
fiftance towards obtaining the Pontificate, 2- March,

1524. p. 377. The Pope's Letter recommending

Peace, 1525. p. 377. ■ of the Cardinal to the

Ambafladors with the Emperor, mentioning the
French King's Lofs of 22,000 Men in Italy, with In-
ftructions about the Popedom, 7 Nov. 1523. p. 381.

■ ■ to the fame complaining of the Emperor's Am-

baflador, 1525. ib. With an Anfwer. p. 392.

about treating with the Duke of Bourbon, p. 387.
lnftructions to Mr. Pace at Rome, Feb. 28. 1524. p.

3(:'9. ■ to the Lord of Bathe, about meeting the

1'icnch Kino: with aTreyne.of io.oco Horfe, &c. j,.

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390. InftrucYions to Agents going to Rome about
the Divorce, by the King himielf, 1528. p. 393.
Inftrudions to Wm. Pagett, going to Poland, &c.
on the fame Bufinefs. p. 402. A Letter of the Kino;,
compliining of the Pope, and notifying his Marriage
with Queen Anne. His Aniwer concerning the Se-
nate of Stetyn, and Opinion &c. from GrifFenberg. p.
412. Of the Difpofal of the Money collected for
the Benefit of the City of Lincoln, after the Pefti-
lence, 1633. p. 421. Dr. Gooch's Account of K.
James's Attempt to convert his Daughter Mary. p.
425.

XXXVI. The Will of Godfrey Goodman, Bp. of /
Glocefter, who died a Papift in 1665./ p. 427. Ad- /'&£
drefles of the College and City of Durham, to Rich.
Lord Protector, in a very flattering Style, p. 429,31.

A Lift of honourable Perfons fummoned by Writ to
fit in the Houle of Parliament"1 in 1657.

XXXVII. Two Original Letters of Bp. Bedel to Lady
Wray, concerning Tythes, with Notes of him, 1624.
P- 433.

XXXVill. The Cafe between the Bp. of Oxford and
the Vicechancellor, concerning his Jurifdiftion deter-
mined in the Bifhops Favour in 1738. p. 436.

XXXIX. Ordinations of the Bp. of London, from
1672 to 1722. p. 438. Extract from the Will of
Mr. John Worth ington, 173 1.

XL. The Life of Dr^Sibs, Matter of Cath. Hall, who
died in 1635," by Zach. Catling, 1652. p. 441.

XLI. Original Letters from the E. of Northampton to
Ld. Rochelter, about the Divorce of Lord and Lady

Efiex, 161 3. to Sir George Elways0, &c.

XLII. The

m See Antiq. of Gladonbury, App. N. XII. p. 301, and MS. V.
XXXIII. p. 61 and 135,

'• Fellow of St. John's Coll. Matter of Cath. Hall, 1626, and a
Benefactor thereto.

u See Winwood's Memorials, V. III. p. 481.

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XLII. The Reformation or Prophanation of Churches

in Cambs. 1643 p.
XLTII. Letters from F. Mabillon to Dr. Gale, 1673.

p. 459. Mr. Rob. Monfey's Will and Epitaph,

1737. p. 461.
XL1V. Epitaphs, ib.

V O L. XXXIX.

Maun fell's Catalogue with Baker's Notes, Additions,
and an Accouut of Ld. Harley's Bibles, is faid to make
up this Volume.

VOL. XL. 4to.

I. Forms of Prayer, not common, collected by the
ABp. Sancroft, from Ed. VI. to the Reftoration. p.i.

II. Notes concerning the Coronation Office of Char. I.
by the ABps. Laud and Sancroft, with that of James
at large, uled by the latter, p. 23.

III. Extract, e Computo Acad. Cant, ab an. 1600, ad
1682. p. 59. Expended on the Entertainment of his
Majefty in 1670, 1039I. 5s. id. — e Computo Tho.
Gooch, Procan. 1720, with the Sums given towards
building the Theatre, p. 70.

IV. Letters from Dr. Sherlock, Mr. Dodwell and Dr.
Lowth in 1688, concerning the Oaths and Depriva-
tions, with the Names, Qualities and Preferments of
perfons deprived, p. 75.

V. The Trial and Proceedinss a sain ft Tinkler Ducket,
A.M. Fellow of Caius College, for Atheiltical Te-
nets in 1738. p. 71 and 257.

VI. Negocium Confecrationis Sacelii Palatio Epali Nor-
vic. pertinent. s An. 1672. p. 96.

VII Short Memoirs of the Parliament held at Weft-

minfter in 1685, by Bp. Lloyd, Bp. of Norw. p. 99.

VIII. A Remembrance of certain Matters concerning

the

' Printed by Dr. Grey in a Trafl intitled. Schifmatics delineated
from Amhuuic Voucher?, 1739. N. 2.

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the Clergy and their Jurifdiction in 1593, by James
Moricei (a Zealot) and Member of Parliament, p.

IX. Extract, e Regiftro Simon, de Monteacuto Epi Eli-
ens ab an 1337 ad 1345. p. 135. Appropriatio Ec-
clie B. Marie Cant. Coll. five Aule Regis, 1343. p.
141. Appropriatio Ecclie de Trumpington Priorif-
ise et Conv. de Haliwell, 1343. p. 144. Breve de
Beneficiis Aliegenarum 13, Ed. III. p. 146. ■

contra Rectorem de Elm. p. 150. contra

Priorem de Lynton. p. 151. ad orand. pro Re-

ge 14, Ed. III. p. 153.

X. e Regiftro Tho. de Jufula1" Epi Eliens, 1345,

p. 159. Cantaria de Bokefworth. p. 162. Confirm.
Cantar. in Priorat. de Anglefey. p. 166 and 173.
Confirm. Domus Coll. Scolar. Aule Comitifias Pembr.
1349. p. 172. Appropriatio Ecclie de Whaddon,
1351. p. 175. Ecclie deCaxton eo. an. p. 177. De-
claratio Epi fuper Penfione Vicar, de Triplowe eo. an.
p. 181. Licentia fundand. Coll. Corp. Xti, 1352. p.
184. Aule Annunciationis B. Marie, p. 185. In-

junctiones et Vifitatio Abbat. de Thorneye. p. 188.
ProceiTus Ekctionis Willi de Pladdon in Abbat. 1347.
p. 189.

XI. — e Regiftro Tho. Arundell8 Epi Eliens,

1374. p. 203. Bulla Provifionis Tho. Arundell de
Epatu Eliens. Appropriatio Ecclie de Pampefworth
Priorat. de Blakeburgh, .1377. p. 209. Mandat. Can-
cell, et Univers. Cant, ad orand. pro Pace eo. an. p.
212. Refignatio PriorifTe Ste Radegunde, et Electio
altera;, p. 213. Appropriatio Ecclie de Gran-

tefete

1 See an Account of him in the Preface to Heylin's Hiftory of
the Reformation pag. penult.

* _ Confecrated Bp. of Ely at Avignon in 1345, where he died in
fcxile in 1361,

' Confecrated Bp. of Ely in 1374: translated to York in 1388,
and to Canterbury in 1396.

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tefete. 1379. p. 218. EtOrdinatio Vicar, ibid. 1380.
p. 223. Mandat. Epi ne admittant. (viz, Lollardos)
in Dioc. Elien. 1380. p. 221. Appropriatio Fcclie
de Longa Stanton omnium Sanctor. 1381. p. 225.
Votum Caftitatis Dne. Cornitifie Suffolcie. p. 229.
Mandat. ad orand. pro Duce Lancaft. Cant. eL Buck.
Comit. &c. 1383. p. 231. Commiflio ad exercend.
Jurii'dicl. Univ. Cantab, durante vacat. Cancellarii.
1384. p. 237. Mandat. ad vifitand. Coll. de Wynd-
Jore. 1386. p. 237. Teftament. Rogeri Scales, Dni.
de Newfell, 13S5. p. 239. Commiflio pro Subfidio
in Univers. Cantab, levando. 1377. p. 241. Man-
dat. ad monend. Maleractores qui intrarunt Prior at.
de Barnwell, &c. 1 38 1 . p. 243. Excommunicato
Kerford et Repyndon prssdicantes Conclufiones erro-
neas. 13S2. p. 247. Mandat. ad orand. pro Domino
Korwic.etExcrcitu fuo contra Ami- Papam, cVc. 1383.
p. 247. Breve regium ut Clerici fint Armati Ric. II.
p. 251. Breve regium ne publicentur Literal Regi
et Regno prejudicial. 1376. p. 253.
XII. Epitaphs, AdmifiKjr:S, &c. in the Churches of
Durham, Bury, Denharn in Suffolk, &c. p. 259.

V O L. XLI.

I. Neva Statuta per regium Majcft. demandata Univers.
Cant. 2 Oct. 15/01. Gul. Cecil Cancell. Joh. May
Procan. p. 1.

II. Compofitio inter Univerfitat. et. Coll. regium, 35
Hen. VI. p. iC3u,

III. Articles for keeping the Univerfity Library,
1582. p. 120.

IV. An Inventory of Things belonging to the Univer-
fity. p. 125.

V. Oincium Clerici Mercati. p. 133.

VI.

< Of the Commlcr:, fee Strvpe's Life of Whitgift, Coll. N.
Vli:, IX, X.

'- Ste Hare's Colled. V. II. p. 141, &c.

[ 87 ]

VI. The Cry of Sturbridge Fair. — And in the Town.
^ p. 142, 52.

VII. The King's Letter to the Chancellor, concerning
the Difturbers of the Univerfity Government, 1 Char.
I. p. 157.

VIII. The Chancellor's Letter thereupon to the Univer-
fity, 1625. p. 159.

IX. An Order from the King and Council, about rating
the Focalia in 1629. P- I^2-

X. The Duke of Bucks. Letter to the Univerfity upon
being chofen Chancellor in 1626, with an Anlwer".
p. 164 and 246".

XI. His Majefty's Letter on the fame Occafion. p. 167.

XII. The Vi echancellor's Letter to the King upon the
Duke's Death, p. 169.

XIII. His Aniwer, nominating the E. of Holland for
his SuccefTbr, 4 Car. I. p. 170.

XIV. De Magiftro Glomerie, et Stat, de Oratore elken-
do, &c. p. 172. With a Lift of the Orators, p. 180.

XV. De Electione Scholatticorum. p. 182.

XVI. Charta Univerfitati concefTa a Jac. I. An. 2. p.
186.

XVII. Privitegia Acad. Cant. concefTa per Chart. 3
Eliz. p. 206 and 231.

XVIII. The Subscriptions of the Univerfity Preachers",
p. 208.

XIX. Of Lealls. p. 212.

XX. Of Pluralities, Non Refidence, Firft Fruits and
Tenths, p. 213.

XXI. Of Purveyors and Victuals. Wine Licences and
Vintners, p. 215.

XXII. Of Phylicians and Surgeons. Chaplain of the
Univerfity. p. 217.

XXIII.

* N.B. The above Articles, fome Notes excepted, are net of Mr.
Baker's own hand Writing, but were given him by Mr. Navlor,
who had them from Mr. Sanderfon, Proctor in 167c.

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XXIII. Of Exemptions, &c. Matt. Stokys's Almf-
women founded 1590. p. 218.

XXIV. Doctors of Mufick. Mr. Tob. Ruftat's Gifr,
1666. p. 219.

XXV. Ordo procedendi in die Comitiorum. The Pur-
chafe of Barton Lordfhip, 1688. p. 220.

XXVI. Of the Workhouie and Provifion lor the Poor.
p. 220.

XXVII. Printers and Stationers. Privileged Perfons.
p. 222, 23.

XXVIII. De Pra?dicatoribus. Sturbridge and Garlick
Fairs. Campana Univerfitat. St. Marie's Veftry.
p. 224, 25.

XXIX. Librorum Impreflbres. Doctors of Mufick,
one of whom was Matter of King's Hall, 1463. p.
226.

XXX. Rectors of Abbot's Ripton, Hunts, with Ex-
tracts from the Regifter, &c. p. 228.

A Letter to the new Chan. (D. of Bucks.) June 16,
1626, by J. H.

XXXI. Mr. Fletcher's Letter to K. James, againft mak^
ing Cambridge a City, with the King's Aniwer, 161 6.

P- 243-

XXX II. A Speech upon the Receipt of an Arabick
MS. after the Death of the D. of Bucks, from the
Dutchefs. p. 248.

XXXIII. A Letter of Thanks from Oxford toK. James,
for in 1620. p. 249.

XXXIV. Epift. Julio CaefariEq. Immumtaturrj Cantab.
propugnat. 1623. p. 250.

XXX V. Rectors of Conington, Cambs. with Extracts
from the Regifter. p. 251.

XXXVI. Livings with their Patrons in the Dioc. of
Ely. p. 25^. . ■ in that of Durham, p, 259.

XXXVII. Of Rob. de Gloceliiia et Rob. de Brunnc.
p. 262.

XXXVIII.

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XXXVIII. De confcribenda Hift. Acad. Canty. p. 264.

VOL. XLir.

I. This Book, formerly Mr. Peck's the Bedel, contains
Graces, Decrees and Forms of Univerfity Bufinefs to
p. 103, which Mr. Baker has continued to p. 133.

II. Extracts from Mr. Buck's Book, collected in 1665,
on the fame Subject, p. 133.

III. The King's Orders concerning Drefs, Preaching
&c. 1674. p. 156.

IV. Extracts from the Letter Book in the Vicechancel-
lor's Cuftody. p. 152.

V. e Regiftris veter. Acad. Cant, a Matt.

Wren, — e Regift. Proc. 1554,88, &c. p. 157.

VI. e Rotulis Pergamenis Supplicationum

Acad. Papas An. 1388,99. p. 177. Et e Regift. ve-
tuftiori. — E nigro Codice Magiftro Tabor, p. 183.

VII. e Regiftro D. Petri Cant, a Mro. Wren,

Coll. Magiflro, et poftea Epo Elien. p. 186. De Be-
neiaftoribus, &c.

VIII. • ■ e Regiftris Elien. abeodem. p. 206.

IX. The Univeriities Right to the Probate of Wills ac-
knowledged by J. Brookbank, Official and Dr. Bent-
ley, Archd. of Ely, 1714. p. 218. With a Grace for
their not being Vicechan. repeated, See p. 103,4.

X. Of drawing up the new Statutes, with Complaints
againft them by the Body, 1572. p. 211. With Di-
rections aboyt the Choice of the Orator.

XI. Articles exhibited againft Laur. Eachard, by the
Parifhioners of Yoxford, 1650. p. 214.

XII. The primitive State of St. John's Coll. by Tho.
Nam, in a Preface to Rob. Green's Arcadia, 1616.
(Quas ? ift Edit.) p. 221.

XIII. The Reformation of the Univerfity by the D. of
Manchefter in 1643. p. 223.

XIV,

1 Printed above in p, 29.

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XIV. The Manner of proclaiming K. Char. II, atCamb.
1660. p. 229.

XV. Obitus Viror. Illuftrium ab an. 1625, ad an. 1690,
a Laur. Eachard. p. 233.

XVI. Ejectments of the Clergy in the County of Cam-
bridge 1644 by J. Nalfon. p. 243.

XVII. in the County of Lincoln, p. 251.

XVIII. ; ■ in the County of Suffolk, p. 254.

XIX. Ejectments of the Clergy in the County of Nor-
folk, p. 257.

XX. ■ in EfTex and Hampfhire. p. 260.

XXI. Libellous Epitaphs upon Pet. Needham, D.D,
and others, p. 265.

Beiides the above Volumes, Mr. Baker bequeathed to
the Univerfity Library, ABp. Wake's State of the
Church, noted and improved under the ABp's own
Hand, which he prefented to him at his own Requeft,
as a Mark of his Kefpedt for his Affiitance, and would
have bellowed a more confiderable Bounty, had not Mr.
B— declined it. Bp. Burnet's Hiftory of the Reform-
ation, in three Vols. Folio noted in Mr. B— 's Hand.
Bp. Kennet's Regifter and Chronicle noted by the fame
Hand. Mr. Anftis his worthy Friend's Hiftory of the
Garter, in two Vols Folio. Wood's Athens Oxon.
and Maunfell's Catalogue, both noted with his own
Hand; at the end of which, is an Account of the mod
valuable old Englifli Bibles in Ld. Harley's Library,
with Mr. Wanley's Obfervations upon them. Of Print-
ing at Oxford, Cambridge, &c. with Remarks upon
Englifli Printers. To this Catalogue of Engliih Writ-
ers in Divinity in 1595, is prefixed one, de Scriptoribus
Britan. MS. Lr.t. molt of the Additions are taken from
a MS. of ABp. Harfnet. Gun ton's and Patrick's Hi-
ftory of the Church of Peterborough, noted (for Bp.
Kennet) in his own Hand.

EXTRACTS

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EXTRACTS

From the Biihop of Ely's Rcgifters.

The following Pages cannot be filled up with any
Thin" more ufeful ro the Incumbents in the Diocefe of
Ely, than the Account of the Endowments of their Vi-
carages, taken from the Bilhop's Registers and other an-
tient Records. Many of which are copied in the fore-
going Collection, and all of them mould, methinks, be
taken authentically by the Parties concerned, for their
better Intlrucuon in their Rights, &x.

The id Regifter now in being, is of Simon de Monte
Acuto et Tho. de Infula, inc. 1337.

Litlington, Appropriatio Ecclie cum Porcione Vicar,

1330. p. 5. E Regift. Priorat. Eliens. Baker Vol.

XXXVIII. p. 156.
Trumpington, Appropriatio Ecclie Priori etConvent. de

Haliwell, 1343. Fol. — Baker, V. XL. p. 144.
B. Maria ad Forum Cant. Appropriatio Ecclie Coll. five

Auls Regis, 1543- Fol. 29.
Tadlow, Compofitio inter Pr. et Conv. de Barnewell et

Pr. et Conv. de Chickfand fuper Decimis Molendini,

&c. in Villa de Thadell. Fol. 38.
Yvhaddon, Approp. Ecclie Capelkx Sti Geomii deWind-

for, 1351. Fol. 40. Baker V. XXXVIII. p. ,79.
Caxton, Approp. Ecclie Cap. Sti Georgii de Windfor,

Fol. 40. B. ib.
Triplowe, Approp. Mro. et Scholar. S. Pet. per. H. deBal-

iham, 1284. Declaratio Epi fuper Penfione Vicar, 135 1.

Compofitio inter Coll. S. Pet. et Vicar. Reg. Gray,

1474. Fol. 124. et Baker, V. XXX. 67. V.XL. 181!

Regiit. Tho. de Arundel, inc. 1374.

Pampisford, Approp. Ecclie Priorat. de Blackber^he

Norw. Dioc. 1377, Fol. 22. Baker, V. XI. p. 209.

Ditton

[ 92 ]

Bitton etHorningfey, Decretum int. Rect. de Ditton et
Hofp. Sti. Johan. Cant. Rect. de Horningfey, Fol. 2 27.

Regift. Tho. Bourgcher, inc. 1443.

Stow-Qui, Approp. Eccles Conv. deBarnewell. Fol.ioo.
Baker, V. XXX. N. II. p. 56.

Plifton S. Etheld. Augmentatio Vicar. Ecclie Fol. 129.
Approp. Conv. de Eynfham ante 1290. Penfio Vi-
car. Baker, V. XXX. p. 202.

Hifton S. Andr. Approp. Conv. de Dennev, 141 5. Ba-
ker, V. XXVIII. p. 36

Sawfton, Compofitio int. Vicar, et Paroch. Fol. 195.

Regift. Gul. Gray, inc. 1454.

Linton, Approp. Ecclie Aul. Pembrook. Fol. 25. Baker,

V. XXVIII. 94. XXX. 1 89. Conceffio Priorat. Aul.

Pemb. 145c. Lib. Tell. I. p. 40. Archiv. Eliens. p.

170.
Chefterton, Approp. Ecclie Aul. Regis Cant. Fol. 27.

Baker, ib. et Archiv. Eliens. Reg. Off*. 1424. p. 154,

45. Compofit, int. Abbat. de Verrell in Lombard.

et Vicar, iup. porcione Vicar. R. Weft, Fol. 203.

int. Propriet. et Vicar. Baker, V. XXXVIII. p. 52.

Regift. Nic. Weft, inc. 151 5.

Eltifley, Approp. Ecclie Abbat. de Denney cum porci-
one Vicar. Fol. 60. Baker, V. XXX. p. 123.

Icklington, Compofit. int. Conv. de Icklington et Vicar.
Fol. 68.

Hinxton, Compofit. pro Vicar. Fol. 72.

S. Benedict. Cant. Approp. Ecclie Coll. Corp. Xti. 1 ^78.
Fol. 191. Baker, V. XXX. 162.

Lib. Inftitut. et Actor, inc. 1540.

Crawdon et Clopton, Liters Teft. Epi Eliens. iuper
unione Ecclefiar. Fol. 27. Reg. Coxe. 161.

Grancefter, Approp. Ecclie Coll. Corp, Xti. Cant. 1379.

Fol.

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Fol. 28. — Ordinatio Vicar. 1380. Fol. 36. Baker, V.

XXVIII. p. 282. V. XL. 218, 223. FundatioEcclie

R. Weft, Fol. 145. Ordinatio Vicar, ib. 146, 156.

Bk. cf Prefid. in Regr. Off. p. 130.
Stanton omn. SS. Approp. Ecclie Decan. et Capit. de

Aftley Convent. 1381. Fol. 37. Baker, V. XL. 225.

Compofit. int. Reft, et Vicar. R. Weft. Fol. 189.
Steple Morden, Compofitio pro Vicar. Fol. 45.
Littleport, Compofit. inter Hofp. Sti. Johan. Eliens. et

Vicar, fuper certis Decimis. Fol. 49. et Archiv. Eliens.

1225. p. 66. int. Epum. et Vicar. R. Weft. p. 133.
Whittlefey S. Mar. Compofit. inter Conv. de Thorney

et Vicar. Fol. 100.

Regift. Johan. Fordham, inc. 1388.

Stanton longa, Approp. Ecclie cum Ordinat.Vicar.et Por-

done Vicar. Fol. 174. Baker, V. XXX. p. 20. 1380.

XXXI. p. 226. Compofit. int. Reft, et Vic. R.

Weft. Fol. 189.
Parfon Drove, Compofit. int. Reft, de Leverington et

Capel. Fol. 187.
Swavefey, Approp. Ecclie Fol. 208,9.
Wiibech, Ordinatio pro Vicar. Fol. 212.
Hinton Approp. Ecclie Coll. St. Petri. Cant. Fol. 215.

Confirm, ejufd. Regift. Priorat. Eliens. Baker. V.

XXXVIII. p. 147.
Baflingbourne, Approp. Ecclie 1400. Fol. 217. Archiv.

Eliens. R. Off. 204. B. p. 96.
Epilc. et Archid. Eliens. Compofit. inter. Fol. 220.
Emneth, Compofit. int. Dnam. Ifab. de Hakebech et Pa-

roch. Fol. 225. et int. Tho. Reynolds, Capel. et Joh.

Frat. Fol. 227. int. Elm et Emneth, et Reel:, de Wal-

lbken.de LX.Acris. R.Gray. Fol. 1 5 1 .inter. Inglethorpe

et Kervell Compofit. Fol. 2.26. Elme et Walfoken.

Approbatio Compofit. int. Restores, ib.
Gamlingay, Ordinatio et Confirm. Vicar. 1292. Regift.

Priorat. Eliens. Baker, V, XXXVIII. p. 164.

Weft-

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Weft-Wratting, Compofic. int. Conv. Elicns. et Vicar.
Lib. Tell:. H. p. 33. Archiv. Eliens. Reg. Off. p.
157. Approp. Baker, V. XXVIII. p. 21. R. Weil.

Holpitia Eliens. Ordin. Unionis. S. Johan. et Mar.
Magd. 1409. Lib. Ted. H. p. 71.

Shelfbrde Parva, Decretum de Porcione Decimar. Lib.
Teft. I. p. 45.

Haflingfield, Proceff. int. Conv. B. Marie Ebor. et Vicar.
fuper j ure q uorund. Xmarum Endow-

ment by Sir Tho. Wendy, 1673. Baker, V. XXIX. p.
127.

S. Edward. Cant, Compofit. int. Conv. de Barneweil et
Vjcar. 1290. Arch. Eliens. p. 60. — int. Eccles. S.
Edv. et S. Joh. 1294. cum Unione. Baker, V.
XXVIII. p. 89.

S, Johan. Cant. Compofit. int. Conv. de Barnwell et Vi-
car, et Conv. de Carium 1291. Archiv. Eliens, p.
61. Univ. &c. 24 Hen. VI.

Barton, Compofit. int. Reel:, et Vicar. 1267. Archiv.
Eiiens. p. Approp. Reel. Baker, V. XXVIII.

Bourne, Compofit. Vicar. Archiv. Eliens. p. 40. 200.
Calcotre, Approp. Conv. de Barnwelle. 1 197. Baker. V.

XXVIU. p. 34. Augment. Vicar. 1537. Prefid. Lib.

Reg. Off. p. 138. Pcnfio 10 s.
Watcrbeche, Approp. Eccles. Conv. de Barneweil. 1 197.

Baker, ib. Ordinatio de Decimis Minutis, Lib. Me-

morand. Conv. de Barnwell in Brit. Muieurn .1294.

Cat. N. 3601. p. 81. C. 142. Baker, V. IX. a p. 1. ad

133. Confirm. Compofit. int. Conv. et Abbat. 1303.

in Memorand. et Baker, V. XXVIII. 4 1 .
S. Michael, Cant. Approp. Ecclie. Coll. S. Mich. Re?.

Prior. Eliens. 1324. Baker, V. XXXVIII. 155.
Eulborne, Senten. defin. de Decimis Eccl. Omn. S. Stor.

efS. Visor. 1330. Reg. Prior. Eliens. et Baker, V.

XXXVIII. p. 173.
Impington, Nigellus Epus Eliens. contulit Eccles. Mo-

nach.

[ 95 ]

nach. Eliens. falva perpet. Vicar. Cs. in ipfa M. 402.

Vet. Lib. MS. A. p. 43. De DecimaMolendini. 1259.
Conyton, Carta Donationis Ecclie. Baker, V. XVI. p. 47.
Wimple, Compoiit. int. Patron, et Red. ib. p. 433.
Kyngfton, Approp. Ecclie. Baker, V. XXX. p. 175.

temp. Bourgchier.
Eliens. Priorat. Approp. Ecclefiar. ib. p. 1.

N.B. There are probably other Endowments, noted in
thole Volumes of Mr. Baker's MSS. (particularly in V.
XXI. or XIX. in the Harleian Cat.) in the Britifh Mu-
leum, which I had no Opportunity of minutely exa-
mining •, and I doubt not, but many early ones, of
Churches appropriated to religious Houfes, may iikevvife
be found in their Chartularies, Ledgers and Regiifers de-
pofited there, and enumerated in the Catalogue above-
mentioned.

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